chewer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person or animal that chews, especially a person who habitually chews tobacco

   The former tobacco chewer described how difficult it had been to quit.

From chew + the agent suffix -er, literally 'one that chews.' The general formation is old and transparent, while dictionaries specifically note habitual tobacco use as a prominent sense. Tobacco chewer is therefore a compositional specialization of the core noun rather than a separate study headword.

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