chaw

suomi-englanti sanakirja

chaw englannista suomeksi

  1. purutupakka

  2. pureksia

chaw englanniksi

  1. That which is chewed.

  2. tobacco|Chewing tobacco.

  3. (ux)

  4. (quote-text)

  5. (quote-text)|title=Lightning Bug|passage=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.

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

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

  8. The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,
    Chawing the fomie bit, there fercely stood.
  9. 2006, Hackett (Indianapolis) edition of Edmund Spenser's 1590 “Book I, Canto IV” of ''The Faerie Queene'', page 62:

  10. (quote)
  11. {{quote-text|en|year=1682|author=John Dryden|title=The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition|lines=145–8|url=http://www.bartleby.com/204/9.html

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

  13. (RQ:Carr Book of Small) Anne's scissors chawed the wiry stems almost as sapless as the everlastings.

  14. To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider

  15. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene), Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, p. 62,

  16. To steal.

  17. The jaw.

  18. (obs form)