what is the meaning of the word chaw?

Answer 1

Chaw is something chewable, like chewing tobacco.

Answer 2

To chew. --chaw n. A chew, especially of tobacco. [Variant of chew.]

REGIONAL NOTE: The use of chaw 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 noun chaw 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.

Answer 3

There are following meaning of 'chaw' :

1. Chew : It is most used for chewing tobacoo

2. Twist

3. Plug

Answer 4

You have good answers but they all give dictionary meanings.

If you are looking for English translation of this Indian language words that sounds like "Chaw".

Then.

Depends on the contacts, if a child is eating, then a parent may prompt the child to chew properly, or even tell the child to hurry up and chew if the child starts doing something like playing with the food with a morsel in the mouth.

"Chaw" also sound like "Jaw" or even "Aaw", so again depends on the contacts.

"Jaw" can mean goway kiddingly or depending on the tone it can mean go, implying see you later. Or even agreely telling some one off, all of laguages are tone sensetive, and body language sensitive. Example same word has quiet defferent conotation if said with fraun or smile.

"Aaw" means come-come or simply come, it could mean next please. It could be a command to come or a person is summond.

Answer 5

the dictionary meaning of chaw is 'to chew' but otherwise Chaw has a wide range of senses in regional expressions. One Northern and Western 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 noun chaw can mean "a twist of chewing tobacco" or "an attachment or hold (on someone)"; for example, a flirtatious woman in Tennessee is "tryin' to git a chaw on a feller"

Answer 6

Whar you frum anyway? I live down sawth and ever body knows what chaw is. Its what you do to a plug of tobaccie when you want a bite. It s like to chaw (chew for you city folks) your food.

Answer 7

I've always heard chaw used to describe chewing tobacco.

Answer 8

chaw (plural chaws)

1.(informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
eg. When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth.
2.(countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.
eg. My uncle's way to convince us not to use tobacco was to give us each a big chaw, and then get us to swallow it.

verb

to chaw (third-person singular simple present chaws, present participle chawing, simple past chawed, past participle chawed)

1.(nonstandard) Nonstandard spelling of chew; to grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.
eg. 1884, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
...the king he set down and twisted his head to one side, and chawed his tongue, and scrawled off something...
2.(UK, slang) To steal.
eg....some pikey's chawed my bike.

Answer 9

In the backwoods and red-neck country it means a
mouthful of chewing tobacco

Answer 10

Its the crud the cow regurgitates, and chews over and over again