chaw
suomi-englanti sanakirjachaw englannista suomeksi
purutupakka
pureksia
chaw englanniksi
That which is chewed.
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To chew; grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud).
c. 1540, (w), Translations from the ''Æneid'', Book 4, in ''The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey'', Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1920, page 130https://archive.org/details/cu31924083763163:
- The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,
- Chawing the fomie bit, there fercely stood.
2006, Hackett (Indianapolis) edition of Edmund Spenser's 1590 “Book I, Canto IV” of ''The Faerie Queene'', page 62:
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(quote-text) the king he set down and twisted his head to one side, and chawed his tongue, and scrawled off something (..)
(RQ:Carr Book of Small) Anne's scissors chawed the wiry stems almost as sapless as the everlastings.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene), Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, p. 62,
To steal.
To be sulky.
The jaw.
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