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

Derived Forms

• ˈchawer, noun

Other Words From

• chawer noun

Example Sentences

As soon as they disappear they make way for the "horn worm" who now takes his turn at a "chaw."

From Project Gutenberg

Some of them kinds of loafers never has a cent in the world, nor a chaw of tobacco of their own.

From Project Gutenberg

Well, I bet you can't find skins or Birch bark enough in this woods to make a teepee big enough for a Chipmunk to chaw nuts in.

From Project Gutenberg

But theyre bitin off a big chaw, and it tickles me to see em do it.

From Project Gutenberg

It ran straight up through the center of the cabin and was as yaller as a chaw of cavendish, when it's pretty well chawed.

From Project Gutenberg