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Chawed vs Chowed - What's the difference?

chawed | chowed |

As verbs the difference between chawed and chowed

is that chawed is (chaw), ie nonstandard variant of chewed while chowed is (chow).

chawed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (chaw), i.e. nonstandard variant of chewed.

    • chaw

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
    • When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw , but then developed cancer of the mouth.
  • (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.
    • 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.
  • * 1889 , , Chapter XXI,
    • "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."
  • (obsolete) The jaw.
    • (Spenser)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic, or, nonstandard) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud); to champ (at the bit).
    • (Spenser)
  • * Surrey
    • The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, / Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood.
  • * 1884 , , Chapter XXIX,
  • To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
    • (Dryden)
  • (UK, slang) To steal.
    • Some pikey's chawed my bike.
    Appalachian English

    chowed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (chow)

    • chow

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortened from (chow-chow).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
    • I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
  • A Chinese breed of dog; the .
  • * 1914 , (Saki), ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts :
    • ‘I'd try and grapple with him myself, only I've got my chow in my room, you know, and he goes for pigs wherever he finds them.’
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=March 4, author=Jane Weinberg, title=First Person: Me and Georgia O'Keeffe, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=While we were talking, one of the chows , the rusty one, had come over to me and I was absently petting him. }}
  • A Chinese person.
  • * 1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 11:
  • *:‘Now look here old man if you should ever bump into an interesting Chow from over the river – one with access , follow me? – just you remember High Haven!’
    • Derived terms
    * chow down

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang, South Africa) To eat.

    • Etymology 2

    From Chinese.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Mahjong) To (use a tile or tiles to) piece together a winning combination of tiles.
  • * 2007 , Eleanor Noss Whitney, A Mah Jong Handbook: How to Play, Score, and Win , page 154:
    • while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.