chew

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /tʃuː/|/tʃʉw/    美 /t͡ʃ(j)u/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth. countable,uncountable
    — I popped the gum into my mouth and gave it a chew.
  2. Level of chewiness. countable,uncountable
    — Once it's cooked, it's not enough of a hard chew to count.
  3. A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing. countable,uncountable
    — Phillip purchased a bag of licorice chews at the drugstore.
  4. Chewing tobacco. informal,uncountable
    — The school had banned chew and smokes from the school grounds, even for adults.
  5. A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw. countable
    — The ballplayers sat on the bench watching the rain, glumly working their chews.
  6. The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically. informal,uncountable
    — Avoiding Tape Chew. In the early days of the ADAT, the "V" blocks (two arms that thread the tape around the front of the head) could sometimes get out of alignment and "chew" the outside track […]
动词 v.
  1. To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
    — Make sure to chew thoroughly, and don't talk with your mouth full!
  2. To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
    — He keeps his feed in steel drums to prevent the mice from chewing holes in the feed-sacks.
  3. To think about something; to ponder; to chew over. informal
    — The professor stood at the blackboard, chalk in hand, and chewed the question the student had asked.

词形变化

chews present,singular,third-person chewing participle,present chewed past chewed participle,past chewn participle,past,rare chews plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bite off more than one can chew chewable chew-and-spit chewer chewing ball chewing gum chewing louse chewing sponge chewing stick chewing tobacco chew off chew on chew on one's nails chew on the scenery chew out chew over chew stick chew the cud chew the fat chew the meat and spit out the bones chew the rag chew the scenery chew up chew up and spit out chew up the scenery chewy cut off more than one can chew I don't chew my cabbage twice mad enough to chew nails prechew rag-chewing rechew walk and chew gum at the same time
相关词
pa chew cheng

词源

词源 1
From Middle English chewen, from Old English ċēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *keuwan, from Proto-Germanic *kewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁-. Cognate with West Frisian kôgje, Low German käwwen, Dutch kauwen, German kauen; also Latin gingīva (“gums”), Tocharian B śuwaṃ (“to eat”), Polish żuć (“to chew”), Persian جویدن (javidan), Pashto ژول (žovạl, “to bite, gnaw”).
词源 2
From Middle English chew, cheu, icheu, from Old English *ċēaw, *ġeċēaw (“chewing”), from Proto-West Germanic *kauw, *gakauw (“chewing”), from Proto-Germanic *kewwaną (“to chew”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch kauw (“chewing”), Dutch gekauw (“chewing”), West Frisian gekau (“chewing”).
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