different between masticate vs chaw

English

Etymology

From the past participle stem of post-Classical Latin mastic? (“I chew”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (mastikhá?, “I grind the teeth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæst?ke?t/

Verb

masticate (third-person singular simple present masticates, present participle masticating, simple past and past participle masticated)

1. (transitive) To chew (food).

2. (transitive) To grind or knead something into a pulp.

Translations

See also

• mastic
• masticable
• mastication
• masticator
• masticatory

Anagrams

• catamites

Interlingua

Participle

masticate

1. past participle of masticar

Italian

Verb

masticate

1. second-person plural present of masticare

Participle

masticate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of masticare

Anagrams

• mesticata

Latin

Verb

mastic?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of mastic?

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