chawing

Verb

chaw (third-person singular simple present chaws, present participle chawing, simple past and past participle chawed)

1. (Southern US, archaic or nonstandard outside dialects) To chew; grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud).
   • The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,c. 1540, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Translations from the Æneid, Book 4, in The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1920, page 130
2. (obsolete, transitive) To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider.
   • "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;
3. (UK, slang) To steal.
   • Some pikey's chawed my bike.
4. (dialectal, intransitive) To be sulky.

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