chig

Verb

chig (third-person singular simple present chigs, present participle chigging, simple past and past participle chigged)

1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To chew.

Noun

chig (plural chigs)

1. (UK, dialectal) A piece of chewing tobacco; a quid.

Interjection

1. (onomatopoeic) Representing a sharp and repetitive sound.
   • So I'm slicing beans one after the other—chig, chig, chig, chig, chig—and everybody's giving me the beans, and I'm going like sixty when the boss comes by and says, "What are you doing?"1985, Richard P[hillips] Feynman, edited by Edward Hutchings, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1997...
   • She dragged him along the wide bitumen path and past the slow chig-chig-chig of a lawn sprinkler. Deep inside the school the insect chorus buzzed and drilled: chairs scraping, kids yelling, a teacher's voice calling the roll.1994, Glyn Parry, Monster Man, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Juniper, →ISBN, page 133