Chaw vs Swim - What's the difference?
chaw | swim |
(informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
(countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.
* 1889 , , Chapter XXI,
(obsolete) The jaw.
(archaic, or, nonstandard) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud); to champ (at the bit).
* Surrey
* 1884 , , Chapter XXIX,
To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
(UK, slang) To steal.
(archaic) To float.
* 2 Kings VI:6 (KJV)
*Wm. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
* Dryden
(uncommon) To cause to swim.
To be overflowed or drenched.
* Psalm VI:6 (KJV)
* Thomson
To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
An act or instance of swimming.
The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
(UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
As a noun chaw
is (informal|uncountable) chewing tobacco.As a verb chaw
is (archaic|or|nonstandard) to chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud); to champ (at the bit).As an initialism swim is
someone who isn't me; someone who isn't myself.chaw
English
Noun
(en noun)- When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw , but then developed cancer of the mouth.
- 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.
- "YOU give him a chaw', did you? So did your sister's cat's grandmother. You pay me back the ' chaws you've awready borry'd off'n me, Lafe Buckner, then I'll loan you one or two ton of it, and won't charge you no back intrust, nuther."
- (Spenser)
Verb
(en verb)- (Spenser)
- The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, / Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood.
- (Dryden)
- Some pikey's chawed my bike.
swim
English
Verb
- And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim .
- Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard.
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- ''For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool.
- I want to swim the 200-yard breaststroke in the finals.
- Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.
- to swim a horse across a river
- Half of the guinea pigs were swum daily.
- I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
- Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim .
- to swim wheat in order to select seed
Derived terms
* sink or swim * swim like a fish * swimmerNoun
(en noun)- I'm going for a swim .