Found 3 hits - Term: chaw, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
chaw \chaw\, v. t. imp. p. p. chawed; p. pr. vb. n.
chawing. see chew.
1. to grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating;
to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.
1913 webster
the trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped,
chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood.
--surrey.
1913 webster
2. to ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind
working upon; to brood over. --dryden.
1913 webster
note: a word formerly in good use, but now regarded as
vulgar.
1913 webster
see also:
chawed chawing chew
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
chaw \chaw\, n. see chaw, v. t.
1. as much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.
law
1913 webster
2. cf. jaw. the jaw. obs. --spenser.
1913 webster
chaw bacon, a rustic; a bumpkin; a lout. law
chaw tooth, a grinder. law
1913 webster
see also:
chaw jaw chaw bacon chaw tooth
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
chaw
n : a wad of something chewable as tobacco syn: chew, cud,
quid, plug, wad
v : chew without swallowing; "chawtobacco"
see also:
chew cud quid plug wad
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