chew

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
 * 2) * 1971-79, Journal of
 * And gruesome they areː We find cattle still alive with hindquarters chewn off, still alive with their eyes chewn out, their ears chewn off, their noses and faces chewn till they look like (a) Hamburger, their tails hanging in shreds. Or, we find them after a slow and cruel death. Can you understand why cattlemen will shoot YOUR dog if he is seen wandering on ranchland?
 * 1) To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
 * 2)  To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
 * And gruesome they areː We find cattle still alive with hindquarters chewn off, still alive with their eyes chewn out, their ears chewn off, their noses and faces chewn till they look like (a) Hamburger, their tails hanging in shreds. Or, we find them after a slow and cruel death. Can you understand why cattlemen will shoot YOUR dog if he is seen wandering on ranchland?
 * 1) To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
 * 2)  To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
 * 1) To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
 * 2)  To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
 * 1)  To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
 * 1)  To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
 * 1)  To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:ponder
 * See also Thesaurus:ponder
 * See also Thesaurus:ponder
 * See also Thesaurus:ponder

Translations

 * Acehnese: mamoh
 * Aklanon: mama
 * Albanian: ,
 * Andi: чӏамму
 * Arabic: مَضَغَ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: meastic, mãcilsescu, ciumulescu, aroamig
 * Assamese: চোবা, পকটীয়া
 * Avar: чӏамизе
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: murtxikatu
 * Belarusian: жава́ць
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: жажалха
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎩᏍᏙᎠ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tygge, gumle
 * Drung: mya
 * Dutch:
 * Eastern Cham: ꨟꨟꩍ
 * Esperanto:, remaĉi
 * Estonian: mäluma, närima
 * Evenki: седями
 * Faroese: tyggja
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Friulian: mastiâ
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ცოხნა, ღეჭვა
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: chätsche
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μασάομαι
 * Hebrew: לעס
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: närriä
 * Interlingua: masticar
 * Irish: cogain
 * Middle Irish: con·cnaí, cocnaid
 * Old Irish: con·cná
 * Italian:
 * Iu Mien: nziuc
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: mamah
 * Kalmyk: җаҗлх
 * Kazakh: шайнау
 * Khakas: тайнирға
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: mandūcō, masticō
 * Latvian: košļāt
 * Lithuanian: kramtyti
 * Livvi: puretella
 * Macedonian: џвака
 * Malay: kunyah, mamah
 * Maltese: magħad
 * Manchu: ᠨᡳᠶᠠᠩᡤᡡᠮᠪᡳ, ᠨᡳᠶᠠᠨᡳᠣᠮᠪᡳ
 * Maori: kamukamu
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Nahuatl: tlanchoa
 * Neapolitan: mazzecà
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: ċēowan
 * Old Javanese: gugut
 * Old Norse: tyggja
 * Pennsylvania German: kaue, tschaae
 * Persian:
 * Polabian: zavăt
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cnuasaich
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жвакати
 * Roman:
 * Sherpa: མུར
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Slovak: žuť
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kusaś
 * Upper Sorbian: kusać
 * Southern Altai: чайнаар
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: nguya
 * Tamil: ,
 * Telugu: నములు
 * Tetum: mama
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: མུར
 * Tocharian B: tresk-
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvan: дайнаар
 * Ukrainian: жува́ти
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: mastegar
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Welsh:, cildroi
 * Western Bukidnon Manobo: mama'
 * White Hmong: zom
 * Yakut: ыстаа
 * Zazaki:, cawitiş, cawen, koçen
 * Zhuang:
 * Zulu: hlafuna
 * ǃXóõ: ǁkxʻám

Etymology 2
From, , , from , , from , , from. Cognate with obsolete 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
 * 2) Level of chewiness.
 * 3) A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
 * 4)  Chewing tobacco.
 * 5)  A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
 * 6)  The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
 * 1) A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
 * 2)  Chewing tobacco.
 * 3)  A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
 * 4)  The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
 * 1)  Chewing tobacco.
 * 2)  A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
 * 3)  The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
 * 1)  The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
 * 1)  The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
 * 1)  The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: дъвчащ бонбон
 * Finnish:
 * Nepali: चुइँगम
 * Romanian:
 * Thai: ลูกอมเคี้ยว


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