chaw

[chaw]

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verb (used with or without object), noun Dialect.

chew.

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Related formschaw·er, noun

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Some of them kinds of loafers never has a cent in the world, nor a chaw of tobacco of their own.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Not so much as a chaw of bacon, or a blanket to lay over you nights.
The Huntress|Hulbert Footner
If a tiger was to lep in his backside and chaw him a nice piece, it wouldn't move him any.
Boy Woodburn|Alfred Ollivant
They'd fout yo'uns for a chaw of terbacker, and then gin the chaw back.
Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6)|John McElroy

"We will chaw them up in just an hour," said Jeff., as the battle began.
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field|Thomas W. Knox

British Dictionary definitions for chaw

chaw

verb

to chew (tobacco), esp without swallowing it

noun

something chewed, esp a plug of tobacco

Derived Formschawer, noun

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Word Origin and History for chaw

chaw

1520s, unexplained phonetic variant of chew (v.). OED points out the variant form chow was "very common in 16-17th c." Bartlett's "Dictionary of Americanisms" [1859] says chaw, "Although found in good authors, ... is retained, in this country as in England, only by the illiterate." Related: Chawed; chawing. The noun meaning "that which is chewed" (especially a quid of tobacco) first recorded 1709.

chaw

verb (used with or without object), noun Dialect.

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