Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To strive or contend in any way; strive for victory, as in the quantity of work done by reapers in the harvest-field.
- n. A champion; a knight.
- n. The act of striving for superiority in any way.
- Shaggy; rough.
- n. Coarse hair which is closely mingled with the finer hair or wool, and has to be separated from it before the manufacturing of fine goods, especially in goat's hair of choice and expensive kind.
- n. Also kempty.
- n. An eel.
- n. A boar.
- n. The ribwort-plantain, Plantago lanceolata, more especially the stalk and spike; also, the common plantain, Plantago major, and perhaps P. media
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Coarse, rough hair in wool or fur, injuring its quality.
Etymologies
- From Middle English kempe ("coarse hairs"), from Old English cenep ("moustache; bit (of a bridle, bristling with points)"), from Proto-Germanic *kanipaz (“beard, moustache, whiskers”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenHw-, *ǵnā(w)- (“jaw”). Related to camp, chin. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“kemp" wrote in message news: 6038614@discussion. autodesk.com ...”
“Five Celebs that Played Baseball albert pujols, fantasy baseball, fantasy baseball draft, Joe Mauer, matt kemp, MLB, Ryan Howard, tim lincecum”
“May 4, 2009 10: 03 PM kemp replied to miera-c. livejournal.com”
I want you to stop stalking "overweight" women. - Feministing
“February 10th, 2010 at 7: 32 pm the kemp smith translation of the first critique is remotely pleasurable to read”
“This web site is full of negativity. negative remarks permeate a majority of the posts. we have the new CIO saying hello and he is immediately blasted. i would not blame mr. kemp if he decides this website is not worth his time.”
“Joey, I like the Blue below green mountain, williams fork, kemp breeze units on the colorado, S. Platte once every 10 years, lower colorado in glenwood, roaring fork down low, and the Big Thompson up in estes park.”
“Oh, and not as well known anymore but how about the original tarzan- Johnny Weissmuller kemp richardson”
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“Bentsen, kemp, Lieberman etc. Gore and Cheney were "double down" picks, and they won.”
“November 19th, 2008 strychnine is a grand tonic, kemp, to take to take the flabbiness out of a man!”
strychnine is a grand tonic, kemp, to take to take the flabbiness out of a man!
“I think more and more Dems will understand this as this race progresses; and if they do, I think he loses even with the support of Bush, Rove, kemp, Coulter, Hannity, Santorum and his other cothinkers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kemp’.
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phrontistery - k
from phrontistery.info
kame, kamelaukion, kamik, kaneh, kava, kazachoc, keb, kebbie, keck, keckle, ked, kedge and 189 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "The mercers sell the well-kempt gents les vêtements de Sèvres: felt berets, kemp fezzes, tweed spencers, crewneck vests, serge breeches, cheverel belts."
Eunoia by Christian Bök (upgraded edition), p 105 May 23, 2010
hernesheir Short, white, hairy fibers found about the head and legs of sheep. Feb 18, 2010
AZwordy In the 1950s, San Diego California, I remember the word used to describe an automobile, usually in modified (hot-rod) condition and if in good shape, it would be a "Cherry Kemp". Jul 25, 2009