cham

Noun (1)

cham (plural chams)

1. An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.
   • Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro’ the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the Cham sixty-four.1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
   • The Tonsons […] would publish Johnson's Shakespeare only by subscription, obliging the Great Cham to sell copies well ahead of publication2007, Michael Dobson, “For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen”, in London Review of Books, volume 29, number 9, page 3

Verb

cham (third-person singular simple present chams, present participle chamming, simple past and past participle chammed)

1. (obsolete) To chew.
   • But he that repenteth toward the law of God, and at the sight of the sacrament, or of the breaking, feeling, eating, chamming, or drinking, calleth to remembrance the death of Christ, his body breaking and blood shedding for our sins [...]1531, William Tyndale, Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue

Contraction

cham

1. (West-Country, contraction, obsolete) I am

   Synonyms:

   I'm

Noun (2) capitalized: Cham

IPA/t͡ʃæm/

Cham pl (plural only)

1. (plural, plural-only) An ethnic group living in Cambodia and Vietnam.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Cham

IPA/t͡ʃæm/

Cham

1. The Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by these people.
2. An abugida used to write this language.

Adjective capitalized: Cham

IPA/t͡ʃæm/

Cham

1. Pertaining to the Cham people or their language.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Cham

Cham

1. A town in Bavaria, Germany.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Cham

Cham

1. A town in Zug canton, Switzerland.

Noun (3) capitalized: Cham

Cham (plural Chams)

1. an ethnic Albanian from Çamëri, originally resided in the western part of the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Çamëri (engl.: Chameria).

   Synonyms:

   Tsam, Tsams, Albanocham, Albanophone, Turco-Cham, Turco-Albanian

Proper noun (4) capitalized: Cham

Cham

1. A Chinese surname from Hokkien.