chaw /t͡ʃɔː/verb 4noun 3forms 3phrases 1 verb4 •(Southern-US) To chew; grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud).And next to him malicious Envy rode, Upon a ravenous wolfe, and still did chaw Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode […] — 2006 •(UK, slang) To steal.Some pikey's chawed my bike. •(dialect) To be sulky. •(no longer used) To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider."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 noun3 •That which is chewed. •(Appalachia, informal) Chewing tobacco.When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth. •(no longer used) The jaw.all the poison ran about his chaw — 2006 formschawed · chawing · chaws Phrases with chaw chaw upTo do for; to finish or use up.
