champing the bit
champing the bit, στόματα Call. Lav.Pall. 12.
The corpus record
χᾰλῑνοφάγος
chalinophagos
champing the bit
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.