unmasticated
- a word derived from masticate.
Example Sentences
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Birds have developed a digestive system adapted to eating unmasticated food.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
This word is used by the common people, more especially the peasantry, to denote the swallowing of masses of unmasticated food; and of morsels that may not be particularly relished, such as fat.
From Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
He ate hurriedly, half chewing the bread and washing the unmasticated chunks down with coffee.
From When God Laughs: and other stories by London, Jack
“You’ve won,” he cried, as the last mouthful was crammed with unfair haste upon its unmasticated predecessor.
From The Bigamist by Young, F.E. Mills
The greatest objection to puddings is, that they are usually swallowed in large quantity, unmasticated, after we have eaten enough of something else.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
