Champing
From the Robert E. Howard Lexicon
© 2017 James LaFond
JAN/30/17
“She screamed again, and then, as those champing, grinning jaws bent toward her lips, she lost consciousness.”
-The People of the Black Circle
It is very unusual to see this word used in a sinister, predatory context, as convention relegates it to the champing of a domesticated animal on its bit and as a metaphor for human impatience derived from this equine action.
1. champ
[CHamp]
VERB
1. another term for chomp.
ORIGIN
late Middle English: imitative.
RELATED FORMS
champing (present participle)
on combat
wife—
triumph
the greatest boxer
song of the secret gardener
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the lesser angels of our nature
under the god of things
when you're food
time & cosmos
barbarism versus civilization
by the wine dark sea
the gods of boxing
beasts of aryas
all-power-fighting
within leviathan’s craw
the fighting edge
winter of a fighting life
logic of force
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son of a lesser god
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your trojan whorse
thriving in bad places
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songs of aryas
predation
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