Crossword clues for chawed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chaw \Chaw\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chawed; p. pr. & vb. n. Chawing.] [See Chew.]
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To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.
The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood.
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To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
--Dryden.Note: A word formerly in good use, but now regarded as vulgar.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: chaw), i.e. nonstandard variant of chewed.
Usage examples of "chawed".
I, Yucca Blaine, have been selected referee because, bein’ from Chawed Ear, I got no prejudices either way.
Between Grizzly Run and Chawed Ear the stage got held up by some masked bandits, and Uncle Garfield, never being able to forget that he was a gun-fighting fool thirty or forty years ago, pulled his old cap-and-ball instead of putting up his hands like he was advised to.
Maybe I should of controlled my temper and just chawed their ears off.
In a village possessing the singular appellation of Chawed Ear, I met an aged prospector who told me that he had seen one of the aborigines, clad in the skin of a wild animal and armed with a bludgeon.
He chawed me with vigor and enthusiasm, and he waltzed up and down my frame free and hearty, and swept the floor with me till I was groggy.
There was Aunt Lavaca and the sheriff of Chawed Ear with ten men, and they all p'inted sawed-off shotguns at me.
But now I hear he's been braggin’ all over Chawed Ear about how he done jilted her.
Even he seen it was no time to take liberties with me—he didn't pitch but seven jumps—then he settled down to a dead run, and we headed for Chawed Ear.
The reason I shot everybody's hats off that I met was just to kind of ca'm my nerves, because I was afraid if I didn't cool off some by the time I hit Chawed Ear I might hurt somebody.
I didn't do nothing to him at all, except escort him in sorrow for five or six miles down the Chawed Ear trail, kicking the seat of his britches.
Doubtless yore intentions is good, but a man better git chawed by lions than rescued by a Elkins!
Bill had to build a new one, and Cap'n Kidd had also run his prize stallion offa the ranch, an chawed the ears off of a longhorn bull, and busted into the barn and gobbled up about ten dollars worth of oats.
This time he got my thumb in his mouth and would ondoubtedly have chawed it off if I hadn't kind of stunned him with the iron skillet.
That new-fangled schoolhouse they got at Chawed Ear is a curse and a blight.
She's due into Chawed Ear on the evenin’ stage, and the whole town turns out to welcome her.