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chaw1520s, unexplained phonetic variant of chew (v.). OED points out the variant form chow was "very common in 16-17th c." Bartlett's "Dictionary of Americanisms" [1859] says chaw [..]
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chawChew
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chaw(n) a wad of something chewable as tobacco(v) chew without swallowing
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chawchew, chews, chewed, chewing; also noun, as of tobacco
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chaw
(informal,uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
''When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth.''
(countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacc [..]
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