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Chaw   Listen
noun
Chaw  n.  
1.
As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid. (Law)
2.
The jaw. (Obs.)
Chaw bacon, a rustic; a bumpkin; a lout. (Law)
Chaw tooth, a grinder. (Law)





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"Chaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... men on the night shift were taking their midnight spell off. Bunt was back at his old occupation of miner, and I—the one loafer of all that little world of workers—had brought him a bottle of beer to go with the "chaw"; for Bunt and I were ...
— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris
... gut. I felt I'd never handle a gun again; I couldn't 'a' blasphemed 'longside a babby ef you'd give me ten dollars to try. An' I guess ther' wa'n't no dirty Greaser as I couldn't ha' loved like a brother, I wus that soothed, an' peaceful, an' saft feelin'. I jest took a chaw o' plug, an' sat back an' watched them folks lookin' so noble as they come along in the'r funeral kids an' white chokers. Then the deac'n got good an' goin', an' I got right on to the 'A-mens,' fetchin' 'em that easy I wished I'd never ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... decoction of Baye leaues, Rosemary, & Fenel, Igreatly disalow not: for it turneth away from the head vapours & fumes dimming and ouercasting the mynde. Now the better to represse fumes and propulse vapours fro{m} the Brain, it shalbe excelle{n}t good after Supper to chaw w{i}t{h} the teeth (the mouth being shut) afew graynes of Coriander first stieped in veneiger wherin Maiora{m} hath bin decocted, & the{n} thinly crusted or couered ouer w{i}t{h} Sugar. It is scarrce credible what a special co{m}moditye ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... don't know why, ner what's the use O' havin' that to interduce A tune—but I know, as fer me I'd ten times over ruther see Elijah Plumb chaw with his chin, A-gettin' ready to begin, While Henry plays that roll o' his An' makes them drumsticks fairly sizz, Announcin' music, on ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) • Various


Words linked to "Chaw" :   jaw, cud, morsel, manducate, quid


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