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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chew
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chew food
▪ He chewed the food slowly and carefully.
chewing gum
chewing...cud
▪ a cow chewing its cud
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cud
▪ It is as much a pattern of their inner being as is tail-wagging or chewing the cud.
▪ All around me camels sat peacefully chewing the cud.
▪ After chewing the cud for a minute or two, they continue the fight.
▪ A bout of feeding early in the morning is followed by a lie down during which they chew the cud.
food
▪ The horse softens food before swallowing by chewing the food between his molars with a sideways grinding action of the lower jaw.
▪ If she chews each mouthful of food 32 times before swallowing, she probably does.
▪ Gladstone had recommended chewing each bite thirty-two times, so Fletcher chewed every mouthful of food until it was pulverized into liquid.
▪ He chewed his food by using his hand to move his jaw.
▪ The sound of her mouth chewing the food.
gum
▪ A trolley was wheeled past by two brutish-looking orderlies chewing gum.
▪ They starved themselves and chewed gum laced with laxatives to lose weight.
▪ Despite throwing chewing gum wrappers at stand-in boss Howard Wilkinson, he was still unable to get a game!
▪ By comparison, lottery tickets can be bought as easily as chewing gum at hundreds of retail outlets and news agents.
▪ Becky was chewing gum, Rufus thought.
▪ Aileen was so nervous that her whole body was bobbing up and down as she chewed gum.
▪ Ashley Haworth-Roberts, London Is there any physiological reason why chewing gum always keeps me awake while driving my car?
▪ She often showed up late for class, and she chewed gum and tossed her ponytail and whispered and giggled with Servio.
lip
▪ Emily chewed her lip, thinking about Hari and Craig.
▪ He chewed his lower lip in a grudging silence.
▪ Still trying to pull herself together, Merrill chewed her inner lip crossly.
▪ Walter flew out the door; leaving Gordy and Ivan chewing their lips and wringing their hands.
▪ Janine chewed her lip, staring spitefully at her child.
▪ Kate chewed on her bottom lip.
▪ Prince William, 10, chewed his lip anxiously while eight-year-old Harry stared wistfully ahead, dreaming of Christmases past.
nail
▪ She chewed her nails in Muir of Ord.
▪ When you left, Faunce was chewing nails!
▪ And there one writing, probably a letter, holding the paper sideways and chewing her nails.
piece
▪ The infant spat out its porridge, and even without teeth enjoyed chewing on a piece of bread.
▪ Tai Ki had literally been chewed to pieces in midocean.
way
▪ She'd found some hawthorn berries on a bush and was chewing her way through one with every sign of enjoyment.
▪ They watched it chew its faultless way through several plates.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Chew your food. Don't eat so quickly.
▪ Helen sat there, chewing a piece of gum.
▪ I chewed the toffee slowly.
▪ I gave the baby my key ring to chew on.
▪ My worst habit is chewing gum.
▪ There was a cow in the field, slowly chewing a mouthful of grass.
▪ You can just swallow oysters or you can chew them a little bit first.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All around me camels sat peacefully chewing the cud.
▪ Come here, Sausage, don't chew that rug!
▪ Do you want to chew on that?
▪ Riven chewed bread which had turned to sand in his mouth.
▪ She finds an apple and chews it loudly, then she lifts her head and scans all around.
▪ The normally grass-rich ranges are barren, chewed down to dust by ravenous cattle.
▪ The squirrel did not chew bark to get at sap or something else.
▪ To relieve catarrh, chew raw garlic.
II.noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bite off more than you can chew
▪ Many kids who leave home to live alone find they have bitten off more than they can chew.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a recipe for chocolate walnut chews
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Babe Ruth accepts a plug of chew from his girlfriend before getting the game-winning hit.
▪ Rod Carew would insert a big chew to tighten his face and help him focus on an incoming pitch.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
chew

chew \chew\ (ch[udd]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chewed (ch[udd]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Chewing.] [As ce['o]wan, 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 over 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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chew

Old English ceowan "to bite, gnaw, chew," from West Germanic *keuwwan (cognates: Middle Low German keuwen, Dutch kauwen, Old High German kiuwan, German kauen), from PIE root *gyeu- "to chew" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic živo "to chew," Lithuanian žiaunos "jaws," Persian javidan "to chew").\n

\nFigurative sense of "to think over" is from late 14c.; to chew the rag "discusss some matter" is from 1885, apparently originally British army slang. Related: Chewed; chewing. To chew (someone) out (1948) probably is military slang from World War II. Chewing gum is by 1843, American English, originally hardened secretions of the spruce tree.

chew

c.1200, "an act of chewing," from chew (v.). Meaning "wad of tobacco chewed at one time" is from 1725; as a kind of chewy candy, by 1906.

Wiktionary
chew

n. 1 A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing. 2 (context informal uncountable English) chewing tobacco. 3 (context countable or uncountable English) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw. vb. 1 To crush with the tooth 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. 2 To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth. 3 (context informal English) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.

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WordNet
chew

  1. n. a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad]

  2. biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow [syn: chewing, mastication, manduction]

chew

v. chew (food); "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass" [syn: masticate, manducate, jaw]

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Wikipedia
Chew (disambiguation)

Chew (or chewing) usually refers to mastication.

Chew may also refer to:

  • Chew (surname)
  • Chew (comics), an American comic book

  • , a destroyer

  • Chew, Washington
  • River Chew, in Somerset, England
  • chew, a chewy sweet or candy
  • Chew (film), an upcoming film
  • Chew out, to be reprimanded loudly
Chew (comics)

Chew is an American comic book series about a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agent who solves crimes by receiving psychic impressions from food, including people. It is written by John Layman with art by Rob Guillory and published by Image Comics. The series has won two Eisner Awards and two Harvey Awards.

Chew (surname)

The surname Chew is a Hokkien, Cantonese, English or Korean name. Some would argue that it is an Hokkien version of Zhou, and that the Cantonese version is Chow. If you look at the list of notable Chinese people with Chew as a surname, they are mostly Malaysian or Singaporean, where Hokkien is the main Chinese dialect. The British colonialists were responsible for the transliteration from the Chinese. Chew is also a Scottish and Somerset, England, surname.

Notabe people with the surname include:

  • Benjamin Chew (1722 – 1810), American jurist
  • Samuel Chew (justice) (1699 – 1744)
  • Samuel Chew (captain) (c. 1750 - 1778), captain in the American Continental Navy
  • Ng Poon Chew (1866 - 1931), Chinese-American writer and publisher
  • Geoffrey Chew (born 1924), American theoretical physicist
  • Paddy Chew (1960 - 1999), Singaporean AIDS victim
  • Betty Chew (born 1964), Malaysian Chinese politician
  • Chew Chor Meng (born 1968), Singaporean television actor
  • Chew Pok Cheong (born 1970), Malaysian cricketer
  • Chew Choon Eng (born 1976), Malaysian badminton player
  • Chew Sin Huey (born 1981), Malaysian pop singer
  • Patricia Chew, CNN Hong Kong news anchor
  • Ray Chew, American jazz musician
  • Robert F. Chew, American actor
  • Roger Preston Chew, Confederate officer in the American Civil War and West Virginia businessman
  • Wee-Lek Chew (born 1932), botanist
Chew (film)

Chew is an upcoming American animated crime film directed by Jeff Krelitz. The film stars Steven Yeun, Felicia Day and David Tennant. The film is based on the 2009 comics of same name by John Layman and Rob Guillory.

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Usage examples of "chew".

There remained however the problem of telephoning to Walt: and I chewed it over thoughtfully while absentmindedly pulling prickly pear needles out of my legs.

So Achang chewed betel over the problem for a full hour, and then, being a man of action, took his weapons and went over to Panda the blacksmith.

I was in mid-air for an agelong enough to chew and swallow a tongueand then I hit on my stomach, rocked forward on my receding chest and two of my chins, and slid.

She chewed the last of the appleberries, relishing the taste less than she had on the first morning.

I put Logan in a wheelbarrow and pushed him back up the farm lane to get more apples, frowning and chewing my tongue as I went.

Miss Sidley could always tell who was chewing gum at the back of the room, who had a beanshooter in his pocket, who wanted to go to the bathroom to trade baseball cards rather than use the facilities.

Since Bedaux was spending a quarter of a million on the expedition, this was hardly enough to pay for the chewing gum and cigarettes which Madame Bedaux handed out daily to the wranglers.

Drinking the water of the Nile, eating the crumbs of dourha bread she had brought from the hospital, getting an onion from a field, chewing shreds of sugarcane, hiding by day and trudging on by night, hourly growing weaker, she struggled towards Beni Souef.

I stopped halfway through the practice and hooked down to check feet and see if anyone needed booties, and Abe chewed through the gang line He let the front six dogs loose, and there I was with just him and the other wheel dog.

Then I began moving up the scale again: a snapdragon, a black grouse, a gecko, and a bowlegged mongrel with one eye, chewed ears, and a body bearing the scars of a thousand back-alley battles.

It proceeded to chew its way up the wood as if the oars were breadsticks, and was well on its way to having Jimmy and Danny Shaftoe for lunch, and Jack for dessert, when the Nayars up on the boat opened fire with their blunderbusses.

To one coming down Split River Pass toward the cupped, alluvial plain at its foot, the buttes seemed to spread fanwise toward the southern horizon, lines and clusters of level-topped, sheer-sided mountains, all that was left of the great mesa that had lain at the foot of the mountains in time immemorial, now chewed by the river into these obdurate leftovers.

Papa Schimmelhorn took special care to be more than ordinarily subservient to the Mother-Empress at handout time, and he prepared himself for bed by chewing a few tasty catnip leaves.

Opening her reticule, she took out a packet of cloves, removed one, then put it in her mouth to chew.

Yet there they were, together, the cow folded down and rhythmically chewing the cud while the Clydesdale dozed with one massive hind hoof propped on its tip.