名詞 chaw:

1. a wad of something chewable as tobacco
   同義詞：chew, cud, quid, plug, wad

動詞 chaw:

1. chew without swallowing

1. Did he chaw up others?
   他徹底打敗了別人嗎？

chaw

v.intr.tr.（不及物動詞和及物動詞）
chawed,chaw.ing,chaws
To chew.
咀嚼
n.（名詞）
A chew, especially of tobacco.
咀嚼物：咀嚼物，尤指煙草

來源：
Variant of chew
chew的變體

<注釋>The use ofchaw for chew , in both the verb and the noun, is remarkably wide in its U.S. distribution,occurring in pronunciations from New England south to the Gulf States,throughout the Midwest,and westward to Colorado and California.Chaw has a wide range of senses in regional expressions. One meaning of the verb is .to bawl someone out.: He chawed her good. A Southern sense is .to get the best of someone in a bantering contest. or simply .to embarrass.: .That compliment sort of chawed me. (Publication of the American Dialect Society).The nounchaw can mean .a twist of chewing tobacco. or .an attachment or hold (on someone).; for example, a flirtatious girl in South Midland states is .tryin` to git a chaw on a feller. (Dialect Notes).In areas where Irish immigrants were seeking work at the turn of the century,chaw was a derogatory term for an Irishman.
在名詞以及動詞形式上以chaw 代替 chew 的用法， 在美國分得尤為普遍，就發(fā)音上來說出現(xiàn)在從新英格蘭南到海灣各州，整個中西部地區(qū)，以及往西直到科羅拉多和加利福尼亞。Chaw 在地區(qū)用法上意義范圍很廣。 動詞的一個意義是.痛罵，大聲訓(xùn)斥.： 他把她狠狠了罵了一頓。 在南部它指.在互相取笑中占了某人的上風(fēng).或者簡單地指.使難堪.： .那句稱贊讓我有些難堪. （美國方言協(xié)會出版物）。Chaw 用作名詞可以指.一撮咀嚼的煙草.或者.（對某人的）愛慕或占有.； 例如，一個中南部的賣弄風(fēng)情的女人 .設(shè)法讓一個小伙子迷上她. （方言筆記）。在本世紀(jì)初愛爾蘭移民們尋找工作的地區(qū)，chaw 是對愛爾蘭人的貶稱