Chew

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  chew \chew\ (ch[udd]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chewed} (ch[udd]d);
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Chewing}.] [As ce['o]wan, akin to D. kauwen,
     G. kauen. Cf. {Chaw}, {Jaw}.]
     1. To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.
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     2. To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.
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              He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. --Prior.
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     {To chew the cud}, to chew the food over again, as a cow; to
        ruminate; hence, to meditate.
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              Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the
              cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the
              beasts, that ye shall eat.            --Deut. xxiv.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chew \Chew\, v. i.
     To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth;
     to ruminate; to meditate.
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           old politicians chew wisdom past.        --Pope.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chew \Chew\, n.
     That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at
     once; a cud. [Law]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chew
       n 1: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: {chaw}, {cud},
            {quid}, {plug}, {wad}]
       2: biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft
          enough to swallow [syn: {chewing}, {mastication}, {manduction}]
       v : chew (food); "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and
           don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass"
           [syn: {masticate}, {manducate}, {jaw}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "chew":
     bawl out, bite, bolus, bullshit, carpet, cavendish, chain-smoke,
     champ, chat, chaw, chew ass, chew out, chew over, chew the cud,
     chew up, chewing tobacco, chomp, chump, consider, consume,
     converse, crunch, crush, cud, cuss out, cut plug, devour, drag,
     draw, eat, eating tobacco, fid, give a going-over,
     give hail Columbia, give hell, give the deuce, give what-for,
     gnash, gnaw, gob, gossip, grind, gum, inhale, inhale snuff,
     jack up, jaw, lambaste, macerate, mash, masticate, morsel, mouth,
     mouthful, mumble, munch, navy, navy plug, nibble, nip, palaver,
     pigtail, ponder, puff, pull, pulp, pulpify, quid, ream, ream ass,
     ream out, rebuke, reprimand, review, revile, ruminate, scold,
     scrunch, sit on, smash, smoke, snap, squash, swallow, take snuff,
     talk, tell off, tobacco juice, tongue-lash, twist, vituperate,
     wig