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chaw

[chaw]

verb (used with or without object)

Dialect.
  1. chew.



chaw

/ ʃɔː /

verb

  1. to chew (tobacco), esp without swallowing it

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. something chewed, esp a plug of tobacco

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • chawer noun
  • ˈ󲹷ɱ noun
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Innumerable bugs, each one less than half the size of a housefly, but primed to chaw their way through a $16-billion California industry exactly like you did to that bag of chips.

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The lieutenant spat again, his ginger chaw just missing my toes.

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The man shifted the wad of chaw in his cheek.

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“He’s chawing at the bit to try to get out on the field and get going,” Servais said.

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Their mouths hung open in wide O’s, here a line of brown chaw drool streaming down a slack cheek, waxy and white in the headlights.

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