chaw

[chaw]

verb (used with or without object)

Dialect.

1. chew.

chaw

/ tʃɔː /

verb

1. to chew (tobacco), esp without swallowing it

noun

1. something chewed, esp a plug of tobacco

Other Word Forms

• chawer noun

Example Sentences

Innumerable bugs, each one less than half the size of a housefly, but primed to chaw their way through a $16-billion California industry exactly like you did to that bag of chips.

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“He’s chawing at the bit to try to get out on the field and get going,” Servais said.

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Their mouths hung open in wide O’s, here a line of brown chaw drool streaming down a slack cheek, waxy and white in the headlights.

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But civilization and its refinements have gained a foothold; tobacco chewers are spitting their chaw juices into upmarket iced tea bottles and farmers are raising llamas.

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They hadn’t been invited to the wedding—and wouldn’t have come if they had been—but the way they patted his back and rubbed his shoulders, they seemed like a chortling chaw of benevolent uncles.

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