Noun

• S: (n) chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad (a wad of something chewable as tobacco)

Verb

• S: (v) chaw (chew without swallowing) "chaw tobacco"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) chew, masticate, manducate, jaw (chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth) "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass"
• S: (v) chomp, champ (chew noisily) "The boy chomped his sandwich"
• S: (v) champ (chafe at the bit, like horses)
• S: (v) mumble, gum (grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty) "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food"
• S: (v) chaw (chew without swallowing) "chaw tobacco"
• S: (v) crunch, munch (chew noisily) "The children crunched the celery sticks"
• S: (v) gnaw (bite or chew on with the teeth) "gnaw an old cracker"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame