Chaw Definition

chô
chaws
verb
chaws
To chew.
American Heritage

(archaic or nonstandard) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud); to champ (at the bit).

Wiktionary
To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
Wiktionary

(UK, slang) To steal.

Some pikey's chawed my bike.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
noun
chaws

Chew.

Webster's New World
A chew, especially of tobacco.
American Heritage
Synonyms:

Other Word Forms of Chaw

Noun

Singular:
chaw
Plural:
chaws

Origin of Chaw

  • Variant of chew

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • See chew.

    From Wiktionary

Chaw Sentence Examples

  • Weller sat back and took another chaw from his tuna salad sandwich, brushing a few crumbs from his chin.

  • The earliest mention of tea by an Englishman is probably that contained in a letter from Mr Wickham, an agent of the East India Company, written from Firando in Japan, on the 27th June 1615, to Mr Eaton, another officer of the company, resident at Macao, and asking for "a pot of the best sort of chaw."

  • How the commission was executed does not appear, but in Mr Eaton's subsequent accounts of expenditure occurs this item - "three silver porringers to drink chaw in."

  • Smokeless tobacco is also known as dip, chew, chaw, and plug.

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