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In some senses, chaw is marked as informal, obsolete, slang, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
chaw
/t͡ʃɔ/
noun 4verb 4
Collocations
5ADJ.
developed, still
VERB + CHAW
bit, give, ran, see, switched
CHAW + NOUN
betweene, cankred, prickles
PREP.
about, off
ADV.
then
Definitions
noun
1
That which is chewed.
2
Chewing tobacco.
When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth.
"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."
verb
1
To chew; grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud).
The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,
And next to him malicious Envy rode, Upon a ravenous wolfe, and still did chaw Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode […]
2
To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider.
"I home retourning, fraught with fowle despight, And chawing vengeaunce all the way I went, Soone as my loathed love appeard in sight, With wrathfull hand I slew her innocent;
3
To steal.
Some pikey's chawed my bike.
4
To be sulky.
noun
1
The jaw.
all the poison ran about his chaw
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When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth.
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"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 charg
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He […] went into the store and behind the counter and reached up and got the plug of chewing tobacco and unwrapped it and bit off a chaw.
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The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,
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And next to him malicious Envy rode, Upon a ravenous wolfe, and still did chaw Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode […]
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The Man who laugh'd but once, to see an Ass Mumbling to make the cross-grained Thistles pass, Might laugh again, to see a Jury chaw The prickles of unpalatable Law.
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