champ
verb (used with object)
to bite upon or grind, especially impatiently.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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However, the trip will do me good, and I am hungry for the fray; the smell of battle is in my nostrils, and I am champing at my bit.
From The Silver Horde by Rex Ellingwood Beach