'Chewing' definitions:
Definition of 'chewing'
(from WordNet)
noun
Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow [syn: chew, chewing, mastication, manduction]
Definition of 'Chewing'
From: GCIDE
- chew \chew\ (ch[udd]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chewed (ch[udd]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Chewing.] [As ce['o]wan, akin to D. kauwen, G. kauen. Cf. Chaw, Jaw.]
- 1. To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To ruminate mentally; to meditate on. [1913 Webster]
- He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- To chew the cud, to chew the food over again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. [1913 Webster]
- Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. --Deut. xxiv. 6. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'chewing'
From: GCIDE
- chewing \chewing\ n. biting your food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow.
- Syn: chew, mastication. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'chewing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- appetite,
- ass-reaming,
- bawling-out,
- cannibalism,
- carnivorism,
- carnivority,
- carnivorousness,
- chain-smoke,
- consumption,
- cropping,
- cud-chewing,
- cussing-out,
- deglutition,
- devouring,
- devourment,
- dieting,
- dining,
- drag,
- dressing,
- dressing-down,
- eating,
- epulation,
- feasting,
- feeding,
- gluttony,
- gobbling,
- going-over,
- grazing,
- habitual smoking,
- herbivorism,
- herbivority,
- herbivorousness,
- hunger,
- ingestion,
- jacking-up,
- licking,
- manducation,
- manducatory,
- mastication,
- masticatory,
- messing,
- munching,
- nibbling,
- nicotine addiction,
- nicotinic,
- nicotinism,
- nutrition,
- omnivorism,
- omnivorousness,
- omophagy,
- pantophagy,
- pasture,
- pasturing,
- pecking,
- puff,
- raking-down,
- reaming,
- reaming-out,
- regalement,
- relishing,
- roasting,
- ruminant,
- ruminating,
- rumination,
- savoring,
- setdown,
- smoke,
- smoking,
- smoking habit,
- snuffy,
- speaking-to,
- tabacism,
- tabacosis,
- tabagism,
- talking-to,
- tasting,
- tobacco,
- tobaccoism,
- tobaccolike,
- tobaccoy,
- vegetarianism,
- what-for,
- wolfing