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chewing the scenery

chewing the scenery is the present participle and gerund of chew the scenery.

Meaning of chew the scenery

Verb

chew the scenery (third-person singular simple present chews the scenery, present participle chewing the scenery, simple past and past participle chewed the scenery)

  1. (idiomatic, performing arts) To display excessive emotion or to act in an exaggerated manner while performing; to be melodramatic; to be flamboyant.
    • Near-synonym: camp it up

Questions about chewing the scenery

What is chewing the scenery the present participle and gerund of?
Chewing the scenery is the present participle and gerund of chew the scenery.

Words near chewing the scenery in the dictionary

  1. chewing stick
  2. chewing sticks
  3. chewing the cud
  4. chewing the fat
  5. chewing the meat and spitting out the bones
  6. chewing the scenery
  7. chewing tobacco
  8. chewing tobaccos
  9. chewing up
  10. chewing up and spitting out
  11. chewing-ball

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