chew
/t͡ʃ(j)u/ sustantivo C2En español: masticación, caramelo masticable, tabaco de mascar
- The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth. · I popped the gum into my mouth and gave it a chew.
- Level of chewiness.
- A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing. · Phillip purchased a bag of licorice chews at the drugstore.
- Chewing tobacco. · The school had banned chew and smokes from the school grounds, even for adults.
- A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw. · The ballplayers sat on the bench watching the rain, glumly working their chews.· The first time he chewed tobacco, he swallowed his chew and got extremely sick.
- The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
Plural chews
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
Bell’s spruce grove as usual, fully intending to stay only long enough to “pick a chew.” But spruce groves are seductive and yellow nuts of gum beguiling; they picked and loitered and strayed; and as usual the first thing that recalled them to a sense of the flight of time was Jimmy Glover shouting from the top of a patriarchal old spruce “Master’s coming.”
There was a tang in the very air that inspired the hearts of small maidens tripping, unlike snails, swiftly and willingly to school; and it _was_ jolly to be back again at the little brown desk beside Diana, with Ruby Gillis nodding across the aisle and Carrie Sloane sending up notes and Julia Bell passing a “chew” of gum down from the back seat.
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