chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
(noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad
(noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco
chew, masticate, manducate, jaw
(verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; “He jawed his bubble gum”; “Chew your food and don’t swallow it!”; “The cows were masticating the grass”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Chew (plural Chews)
A surname.
A river in Somerset, England
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Chew is the 3988th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8905 individuals. Chew is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (39.7%), White (37.73%), and Black/African American (14.54%) individuals.
chew (third-person singular simple present chews, present participle chewing, simple past chewed, past participle (rare) chewn or chewed)
To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
(informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
• (crush food with teeth prior to swallowing): bite, chavel, chomp, crunch, masticate
• (degrade or demolish as if with teeth): grind, pulverize, rip, shred, tear
• (think about): contemplate, ruminate, mull, muse, ponder
• See also ponder
chew (countable and uncountable, plural chews)
The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
Level of chewiness.
A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
(informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
(countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
(uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
Source: Wiktionary
Chew, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Chewing.] Etym: [As ceĂłwan, akin to D. kauwen, G. kauen. Cf. Chaw, Jaw.]
1. To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.
2. To ruminate mentally; to meditate on. He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. Prior. To chew the cud, to chew the food ocer again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. 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. 6.
Chew, v. i.
Definition: To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate. old politicians chew wisdom past. Pope.
Chew, n.
Definition: That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud. [Law]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
