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Definition of 'chaw'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(informal|uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
- When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw , but then developed cancer of the mouth.
(countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.
- My uncle's way to convince us not to use tobacco was to give us each a big chaw , and then get us to swallow it.
* 1889 , , Chapter XXI,
- "YOU give him a chaw', did you? So did your sister's cat's grandmother. You pay me back the ' chaws you've awready borry'd off'n me, Lafe Buckner, then I'll loan you one or two ton of it, and won't charge you no back intrust, nuther."
(obsolete) The jaw.
- (Spenser)
Verb
( en-verb)
(archaic|or|nonstandard) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud); to champ (at the bit).
- (Spenser)
* Surrey
- The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, / Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood.
* 1884 , , Chapter XXIX,
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To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
- (Dryden)
(UK|slang) To steal.
- Some pikey's chawed my bike.
Appalachian English
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