单词 | chewing |
释义 | chewingn. 1. a. The action of chew v.; mastication. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > chewing chewingc1000 chewc1200 mastication?a1425 chamming1528 chawing?1533 champing1592 champ1604 manducation1650 masticating1827 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > chewing > chewing for another chewing1649 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 179 Ruminatio, ciwung, uel edroc, uel aceocung. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 86 Vorzuelȝe wyþoute chewynge. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 74 Chewynge of metys or oþyr þynngys, masticacio. 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. E3 You can sup of a coole cup of Sacke without any chewing. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xi. 113 If the Kingdom shall tast nothing but after his chewing, what does he make of the kingdom, but a great baby. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect Introd. ii. 55 [In] chewing..there is a complicated concurrence of movements of the jaw, the tongue, and the cheeks. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun] > sense of taste smacka1200 smatcha1200 smatching?c1225 swallow1340 swallowing1340 tastec1380 toothc1386 palatea1398 chewinga1400 savouringc1405 gustc1430 tallage1557 relish1605 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17018 Hering, sight, smelling and fele, cheuing er wittes five. 2. The action of champing and squeezing any substance between the teeth, without reducing it to pulp, or intending to swallow it; esp. the habitual practice of so operating upon a quid of tobacco for the sake of the juice. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > action of chewing tobacco > [noun] chewing1800 1800 Med. Jrnl. 8 131 The habit of chewing. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. viii. 272 The prevalence of those two odious practices of chewing and expectorating. 1879 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 26 Dec. Chewing is rapidly going out of fashion, but the quid has still a few votaries left. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. chewing-ball n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1708–15 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Chewing-balls, little Balls made of several sorts of Druggs, to be chew'd by Horses, in order to recover their Appetite. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word). chewing-gum n. originally U.S. the hardened secretion of the spruce-tree, or other insoluble substance, chewed, after the manner of tobacco, by boys and girls. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > chewing- or bubble-gum gum1842 chewing-gum1850 gum ball1855 Tutti Frutti1885 chicle1889 bubblegum1911 spearmint1920 chewy1921 chutty1941 chuggy1994 spoggy1999 1850 Chicago Daily Democrat 25 Oct. Chewing gum! A new and superior preparation of Spruce Gum. 1864 Yale Literary Mag. 29 293 Burgundy pitch, two chaws for a cent, Chewing gum, cent a stick. 1871 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches New & Old Your little brother's ‘chawing gum’. 1882 Chicago Advance 6 Apr. 219 They are the ‘chewing-gum of literature, offering neither savor nor nutriment, only subserving the mechanical process of mastication’. 1883 St. James's Gaz. 16 Nov. Petroleum [is used]..to make the substance known as ‘chewing-gum’. 1949 Economist 5 Nov. 996/2 The Soviet delegate..accused the United States of giving exports of chewing gum priority. chewing-tobacco n. Originally U.S., tobacco suitable for chewing. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > suitable for chewing chaw1709 chewing-tobacco1789 1789 Mass. Sentinel (Boston) 28 Oct. 4/3 Chewing Tobacco of various kinds. 1835 J. Martin Gazetteer Virginia 175 A dark greyish soil..which produces the best chewing tobacco in the state. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options 200 Which one of you has got any chewing-tobacco? 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Oct. 11/1 (advt.) Macdonald's Prince of Wales Chewing Tobacco. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). chewingadj. That chews; ruminating. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adjective] > relating to chewing > chewing chewing1637 masticating1802 1637 J. Milton Comus 19 By then the chewing flocks Had ta'ne their supper on the savourie herbe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.c1000adj.1637 |
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