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Chew   /tʃu/   Listen
Chew

verb
(past & past part. chewed; pres. part. chewing)
1.
Chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth.  Synonyms: jaw, manducate, masticate.  "Chew your food and don't swallow it!" , "The cows were masticating the grass"
noun
1.
A wad of something chewable as tobacco.  Synonyms: chaw, cud, plug, quid, wad.
2.
Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow.  Synonyms: chewing, manduction, mastication.



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"Chew" Quotes from Famous Books



... a real estate agent! None of us was stuck on droppin' a thousand or so into a smelly machine that wouldn't behave. Maybe it would next time; but we had our doubts. What we wanted most was to get from under, and this meetin' to-day was called to chew over a proposition for dumpin' the stock on the Curb on the chance that there might be enough suckers to go around. It wouldn't be a cheerful seance, either, and bystanders might not be exactly welcome. Misery may like comp'ny; but it don't ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford

... he said, addressing himself to Wild Bill, "and I sartinly doubt ef there be anythin' in the settlements to-day that can equal it. There be jest enough of the suet, and there be a plum for every mouthful; and it be solid enough to stay in the mouth ontil ye've had time to chew it, and git a taste of the corn,—and I wouldn't give a cent for a puddin' ef it gits away from yer teeth fast. Yis, it be a wonderful bit of cookin'," and, turning to the woman, he added, "ye may ...
— Holiday Tales - Christmas in the Adirondacks • W. H. H. Murray

... "I have indigestion something awful. I can't chew a piece of meat to save my life. I just bite it hard enough to make sure it ...
— Continuous Vaudeville • Will M. Cressy

... of the Supreme Court of the United States all chew tobacco while hearing cases, but that they are very serious men otherwise, and never laugh, or look at a pretty girl, or ...
— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan

... that the broad changes effected in 1858 have given the Scottish Universities a very liberal constitution, with as much real approximation to the primitive state of things as is at all desirable. If your fat kine have eaten the lean, they have not lain down to chew the cud ever since. The Scottish Universities, like the English, have diverged widely enough from their primitive model; but I cannot help thinking that the northern form has remained more faithful to its original, not only in constitution, but, what ...
— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley


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