chomp

v., chomped, chomp·ing, chomps.

v.tr.
To chew or bite on noisily: a horse chomping oats. See synonyms at bite.

v.intr.
To chew or bite on something repeatedly: chomping on a cigar.

n.
The act or an instance of vigorous biting: "He finished the last of his sandwich with a single chomp" (Anne Tyler).

[Variant of CHAMP¹.]

verb

1. To bite and grind with the teeth: champ, chew, chump, crump, crunch, masticate, munch. Regional chaw. See mouth.
2. To seize, as food, with the teeth: bite, champ, gnash, gnaw. See attack/defend, ingestion.

1. To lose; specifically, to chew on something of which more was bitten off than one can. Probably related to gnashing of teeth.

2. To bite the bag; See bagbiter.

A hand gesture commonly accompanies this. To perform it, hold the four fingers together and place the thumb against their tips. Now open and close your hand rapidly to suggest a biting action (much like what Pac-Man does in the classic video game, though this pantomime seems to predate that). The gesture alone means ‘chomp chomp’ (see Verb Doubling in the Jargon Construction section of the Prependices). The hand may be pointed at the object of complaint, and for real emphasis you can use both hands at once. Doing this to a person is equivalent to saying “You chomper!” If you point the gesture at yourself, it is a humble but humorous admission of some failure. You might do this if someone told you that a program you had written had failed in some surprising way and you felt dumb for not having anticipated it.

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - gumle på, tygge på
v. intr. - gumle, skære tænder
n. - gumlelyd

idioms:

• chomp at the bit    være utålmodig

Nederlands (Dutch)
smakken, op het bit bijten, kauwen

Français (French)
v. tr. - mâcher bruyamment
v. intr. - mâcher bruyamment, ronger qch
n. - bruit de mastication

idioms:

• chomp at the bit    impatient

Deutsch (German)
v. - schmatzen
n. - Schmatzen

idioms:

• chomp at the bit    vor Ungeduld brennen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - μασώ (με θόρυβο), μασουλίζω
n. - (θορυβώδες) μάσημα, μασούλισμα

idioms:

• chomp at the bit    (καθομ.) αδημονώ, δεν κρατιέμαι

Italiano (Italian)
masticare

idioms:

• chomp at the bit    mordere il morso

Português (Portuguese)
v. - morder, mastigar
n. - mordida, mastigada

idioms:

• chomp at the bit    estar impaciente

Русский (Russian)
чавкать

idioms:

• chomp at the bit    рваться в путь, грызть удила

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - hacer ruidos al comer
v. intr. - hacer ruidos al comer
n. - masticación sonora, sonido de masticación

idioms:

• chomp at the bit    estar impaciente por, morirse por, morder los estribos (estar impaciente como un caballo)

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - tugga på (betsel mm)
n. - tuggande, gnagande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
大声咀嚼, 格格地咬, 切齿, 咬响牙齿, 格格地咬牙, 马嚼子

idioms:

• chomp at the bit    不耐约束, 不服驾驭, 烦躁不安地..., 急不能耐

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 大聲咀嚼, 格格地咬
v. intr. - 切齒, 咬響牙齒, 格格地咬牙
n. - 馬嚼子

idioms:

• chomp at the bit    不耐約束, 不服駕馭, 煩躁不安地..., 急不能耐

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 물다, 어적어적 깨물다
v. intr. - 물다, 어적어적 깨물다
n. - 어적어적 씹는 소리

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - むしゃむしゃ噛む, 歯ぎしりする, 押し潰す

idioms:

• chomp at the bit    いらいらする

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يأكل أو يعض الطعام بصوت عالي (الاسم) صوت الأكل أو العض‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮גרס‬
v. intr. - ‮לעס בקול‬
n. - ‮לעיסה בקול‬

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