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chawe

chawe is the obsolete spelling of chaw.

Meaning of chaw

Noun (1)

chaw (countable and uncountable, plural chaws)

  1. (countable) That which is chewed.
  2. (Appalachia, informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
    • When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth.

Noun (2)

chaw (plural chaws)

  1. (obsolete) The jaw.
    • all the poison ran about his chaw2006, Hackett (Indianapolis) edition of Edmund Spenser's [1590] “Book I, Canto IV” of The Faerie Queene, page 62

See all 7 meanings of chaw

Forms of chawe

pluralchawes

Questions about chawe

What is chawe the obsolete spelling of?
Chawe is the obsolete spelling of chaw.

Words near chawe in the dictionary

  1. chawbucked
  2. chawbucking
  3. chawbucks
  4. chawdron
  5. chawdrons
  6. chawe
  7. chawed
  8. chawed up
  9. chawer
  10. chawers
  11. chawes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chawe (page history and authors); chaw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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