chaw

C2 Topic:Actions & Processes

US /t͡ʃɔ/ UK /t͡ʃɔː/ See IPA manual

Minimal pairs

Sounds like shaw /tʃ/ vs /ʃ/

Freq #65426

Meanings

1

verb
to chew without swallowing

Chaw tobacco.
2

noun
Chewing tobacco.

When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth.
3

verb
To chew; grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud).

The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,.
4

verb
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;.

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Word family

Derived forms chawbaconchawer

Etymology

From Early Modern English chawe, either a form of Middle English chaul, chavel, jawle, jawe (“jaw”) (whence also English jowl) which has lost the final -l, or from Middle English *chawe, *chowe, from Old English *ċēawe, *ċēowe (“jaw”), or a form of Middle English jowe, jawe (“jaw”). See jowl and jaw for more.

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# chaw

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** verb, noun
**IPA (US):** /t͡ʃɔ/
**IPA (UK):** /t͡ʃɔː/
**Frequency rank:** 65426

## Meanings
1. to chew without swallowing
2. Chewing tobacco.
3. To chew; grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud).
4. To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider.

## Examples
- Chaw tobacco.
- When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth.
- The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,.
- "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;.

## Derived Forms
- chawbacon
- chawer

## Etymology
From Early Modern English chawe, either a form of Middle English chaul, chavel, jawle, jawe (“jaw”) (whence also English jowl) which has lost the final -l, or from Middle English *chawe, *chowe, from Old English *ċēawe, *ċēowe (“jaw”), or a form of Middle English jowe, jawe (“jaw”). See jowl and jaw for more.

## Topics
- Actions & Processes

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