chaw

Synonyymisanakirja

chaw

suupala, murunen, mälli, purutupakka, tupakkalevy, pureskella, jauhaa, mutustella, pureksia.

Englannin sanakirja

chaw englanniksi

1. puhekieltä chewing tobacco|Chewing tobacco.

When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth.

2. puhekieltä A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.

3. 1889, w:Mark Twain|Mark Twain, s:The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn/Chapter_XXI The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter XXI,

"YOU give him a chaw, did you? So did your sister's cat's grandmother. You pay me back the chaws you've awready borry'd off'n me, Lafe Buckner, then I'll loan you one or two ton of it, and won't charge you no back intrust, nuther."

4. *1970, (w), Lightning Bug:

He … went into the store and behind the counter and reached up and got the plug of chewing tobacco and unwrapped it and bit off a chaw.

5. puhekieltä The jaw.

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6. puhekieltä To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud); to champ (at the bit).

7. c. 1540, (w), Translations from the w:Aeneid Æneid, Book 4, in The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1920, p. 130, https://archive.org/details/cu31924083763163

The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,

Chawing the fomie bit, there fercely stood.

8. 1590, (w), (w), Book I, Canto Four, stanza 30, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, p. 62,

And next to him malicious Envy rode,

Upon a ravenous wolfe, and still did chaw

Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode (..)

9. 1682, (w), The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition, lines 145-8, http://www.bartleby.com/204/9.html

The Man who laugh'd but once, to see an Ass

Mumbling to make the cross-grained Thistles pass,

Might laugh again, to see a Jury chaw

The prickles of unpalatable Law.

10. 1884, w:Mark Twain|Mark Twain, s:The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn/Chapter_XXIX The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter XXIX,

(..) the king he set down and twisted his head to one side, and chawed his tongue, and scrawled off something (..)

11. 1942, (w), (w), "The Orange Lily," http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400201.txt

Anne passed the lily. Beyond was the bed of pinks—white, clove, cinnamon. (..) Anne's scissors chawed the wiry stems almost as sapless as the everlastings.

12. To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.

13. 1590, (w), (w), Book II, Canto Four, stanza 29, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, p. 62,

"I home retourning, fraught with fowle despight,

And chawing vengeaunce all the way I went,

Soone as my loathed love appeard in sight,

With wrathfull hand I slew her innocent;

14. puhekieltä To steal.

Some pikeys chawed my bike.''

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