Definitions for kemps

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IPA: /kɛmp/

Kemps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in kemps (ekmps).

Definitions for kemps

noun

1. British Dialect. a strong, brave warrior. an athlete, especially a champion. a professional fighter. an impetuous or roguish young man.
2. Scot. and North England. a contest, as between two athletes or two groups of workers, especially a reaping contest between farmworkers.
3. a short, coarse, brittle fiber, used chiefly in the manufacture of carpets.
4. Jack F. 1935–2009, U.S. politician: congressman 1970–89.
5. a male given name.

verb (used without object)

1. Scot. and North England. to contest, fight, or strive, especially to strive in a reaping contest.

Origin of kemps

before 900; Middle English kempe, Old English cempa; cognate with Old Frisian kempa, kampa, Middle Dutch, Middle Low German kemp(e), Old High German chemp(i)o; ultimately West Germanic, perha

Examples for kemps

But kemp belongs to a different time, and that time has now been long in passing.

"Handsome is as handsome does," replied Mrs. kemp, ominously.

As I left with an agitated employer, kemp encouraged me to reach out to him if I wanted to get to know him better.

kemp, the clown of his company, knew her, and dedicated a book to her rather familiarly.

kemp, Mix, and the other white players put their careers on the line, as did the African-American players.

The investigation is ongoing, but kemp has yet to make public any evidence of widespread fraud by the group.

The police learned that kemp worked in a grocery on Decatur Avenue.

You will be as much surprised as I was, Mrs. kemp, when you hear it.

"It is not so very wonderful, but very natural," responded Mrs. kemp, warmly.

The shock had been terrible to both Mrs. kemp and Harry Kendal, and oh!