Chawing

Word CHAWING
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Definitions and meanings of "Chawing"

What do we mean by chawing?

To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud)

To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider

To steal.

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The word "chawing" in example sentences

It was rather a comical sight to see us in our cabins of a cold winter night, sitting by the fire, and all solemnly "chawing" away, in profound silence, on the Johnnies 'jerked beef. ❋ Leander Stillwell (1888)

With touching eloquence they recalled those happier evenings -- the time of smoke and vapor; when, after a whole day's delectable "chawing," they beguiled themselves with their genial, and most companionable puffs. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

But with the blessed Bible full of good hay, you are 'chawing' away on the briars. " ❋ George W. Bain (N/A)

Bob lurched ahead, through a line of bushes, into another back yard, the bike grinding and chawing through a garden. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2009)

There it hit, its rotors chawing up a circle of dust from every bite. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2009)

When he goes on Russert or Larry King or Letterman, he's a curly muff of hair under a cowboy hat whose jaw is constantly chawing gum and who answers the softball question with a monotonous mumble heavily punctuated with monosyllabic "Well ... 's" and "Ya knows ... 's". ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)

Admit it, Roger, don't you sometimes, when you and the other reviewers at the Horn Book are leaning back in your chairs chawing away about who should get stars that month, wish that you could just ask them what they had for dinner last night instead and then send them all home? ❋ Roger Sutton (2006)

He turned to his date and exclaimed, "I swar, Miss Jane, this beats julep all to nothing; who ever thought of chawing rum!" ❋ Unknown (2008)

But it's more fun to present it in the frozen shell of an orange, perfect for making rum fit for chawing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sontag's response was a full-scale bombardment of H.L. Mencken's Yahooland, not excluding "John Wayne chawing spareribs in the White House," the genocide of the American Indian, and "box architecture." ❋ Weinberger, Eliot (2007)

Driving around interviewing all sorts of weirdos all over NC, I have learned that you really can't assume anything about someone who happens to be wearing a Dale Earnhardt hat and chawing on a big mouthful of Levi Garrett. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So here's the latest on The Fortunate Pickle: After chawing over my options with a co-worker Tuesday morning, I happened to mention it to my boss when I dropped off his mail. ❋ Haloaskew (2005)

There was empty drygoods boxes under the awnings, and loafers roosting on them all day long, whittling them with their Barlow knives; and chawing tobacco, and gaping and yawning and stretching — a mighty ornery lot. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I was a raw country lad when the war broke out, as tough a specimen as ever Jefferson County turned loose on the unsuspecting public, but I wasn't much worse than the rest of the boys who loafed around Todd's livery stable swapping lies, chawing tobacco, and setting the nation to rights. ❋ Robert Fitzgerald (N/A)

Wet-Nurses are generally very lazy and liquorish, and they are ever chatting and chawing something or other with the Maids; and in their manner they baptize it, with saying it is very necessary & wholesom for the Child. ❋ A. Marsh (N/A)

"May this choke me," says Jack Shea, "if I didn't think that 'twas a piece of a leather breeches when I saw Andy _chawing_ it." ❋ Various (N/A)

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