different between chaw vs chay

English

Etymology

From earlier chawe (“jaw”). More at jaw. See also chew.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t????/

• Rhymes: -??

• Homophone: chore (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

chaw (plural chaws)

1. (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.

   When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth.

2. (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.
3. (obsolete) The jaw.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto Four, stanza 30, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, p. 62,

     all the poison ran about his chaw

Verb

chaw (third-person singular simple present chaws, present participle chawing, simple past and past participle chawed)

1. (archaic or nonstandard outside dialects, e.g. Appalachia, Southern US) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud)
   • c. 1540, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Translations from the Æneid, Book 4, in The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1920, p. 130,^[1]

     The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,

     Chawing the fomie bit, there fercely stood.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto Four, stanza 30, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, p. 62,

     And next to him malicious Envy rode,

     Upon a ravenous wolfe, and still did chaw

     Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode […]

   • 1682, John Dryden, The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition, lines 145-8,^[2]

     The Man who laugh'd but once, to see an Ass

     Mumbling to make the cross-grained Thistles pass,

     Might laugh again, to see a Jury chaw

     The prickles of unpalatable Law.

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “The Orange Lily,”^[3]

     Anne passed the lily. Beyond was the bed of pinks—white, clove, cinnamon. […] Anne's scissors chawed the wiry stems almost as sapless as the everlastings.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto Four, stanza 29, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, p. 62,

     "I home retourning, fraught with fowle despight,

     And chawing vengeaunce all the way I went,

     Soone as my loathed love appeard in sight,

     With wrathfull hand I slew her innocent;

3. (Britain, slang) To steal.

   Some pikey's chawed my bike.

Anagrams

• WHCA, Wach

English

Etymology 1

Noun

chay (plural chays)

1. (archaic, colloquial) A chaise (horse-drawn carriage).

Etymology 2

From Pitman jay, which it is related to graphically, and the sound it represents.

Noun

chay (plural chays)

1. The letter ?/?, which stands for the ch sound /t?/, in Pitman shorthand.

Anagrams

• achy

Ch'orti'

Noun

chay

1. fish

References

• Hull, Kerry (2005) An Abbreviated Dictionary of Ch'orti' Maya?^[1]

Ladino

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ???? (?ây).

Noun

chay m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ?????)

1. tea

Manx

Noun

chay f

1. Lenited form of kay.

Mutation

Quechua

Determiner

chay

1. (medial) that

See also

• kay
• haqay

Tzeltal

Noun

chay

1. fish

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese ? (“vegetarian”, SV: trai).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [t??aj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [t??aj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ca(?)j??]

Noun

chay • (????)

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Adjective

chay • (????)

1. vegan

Usage notes

• Chay could be broadly translated as either "vegan" or "vegetarian" when it comes to food and cuisine, although chay people (some of whom are actual vegan Buddhists) do tend to consciously avoid fat-based cooking oil and n??c m?m (“fish sauce”), so the term corresponds better to "vegan".

Adverb

chay • (????)

1. (colloquial) in an ordinary, even lackluster, way; without special aids or equipment