chew

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• Received-Pronunciation: /tʃuː/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /tʃʉw/
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• Canada, Wales: /tʃɪʊ̯/
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• Canada, US: cho͞o
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• Canada, US: /t͡ʃ(j)u/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -uː
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• CMU ARPABET: CH UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an English surname, Chew has a number of separate origins: ** A toponymic surname referring to a place in Billington, Lancashire. It was originally spelled Cho, from Middle English cho, which is possibly a descendant of Old English *cēo (“gill”), denoting a ravine. ** A toponymic surname referring to Chew Magna or Chew Stoke in Somerset, England. ** A nickname from Old English ċīo, ċēo, which refers to smaller chattering species of crow, in particular the red-billed chough. * As a Chinese surname, borrowed from Hokkien 周 (Chiu), Teochew 周 (ziu1), Cantonese 趙/赵 (ziu6), etc.

From Middle English chew, cheu, icheu, from Old English *ċēaw, *ġeċēaw (“chewing”), from Proto-West Germanic *kauw, *gakauw (“chewing”), from Proto-Germanic *kewwaną (“to chew”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch kauw (“chewing”), Dutch gekauw (“chewing”), West Frisian gekau (“chewing”).

From Middle English chewen, from Old English ċēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *keuwan, from Proto-Germanic *kewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh1-. Cognate with West Frisian kôgje, Low German käwwen, Dutch kauwen, German kauen; also Latin gingīva (“gums”), Tocharian B śuwaṃ (“to eat”), Polish żuć (“to chew”), Persian جویدن (javidan), Pashto ژُوَل (žovạl, “to bite, gnaw”).

174 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: дъвчащ бонбон (dǎvčašt bonbon) — chewable candy
• Finnish: karkki — chewable candy
• Nepali: चुइँगम (cuĩgam) — chewable candy
• Romanian: caramea — chewable candy
• Thai: ลูกอมเคี้ยว (lôok om kíeow) — chewable candy
• Finnish: purutupakka — chewing tobacco
• Finnish: mälli — chaw
• Acehnese: mamoh — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Aklanon: mama — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Albanian: përtyp — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Albanian: përçap — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Southern Altai: чайнаар (čaynaar) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Andi: чӏамму (čʼammu) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Chungli Ao: mejak — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Arabic: مَضَغَ (maḍaḡa) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Armenian: ծամել (camel) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Aromanian: meastic — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Aromanian: mãcilsescu — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Aromanian: ciumulescu — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Aromanian: aroamig — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Assamese: চোবা (süba) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Assamese: পকটীয়া (pokotia) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Avar: чӏамизе (čʼamize) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Azerbaijani: çeynəmək — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Basque: murtxikatu — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Belarusian: жава́ць (žavácʹ) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Bengali: চিবনো (cibôno) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Central Bikol: sapa — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Bulgarian: дъ́вча (dǎ́vča) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Burmese: ဝါး (wa:) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Buryat: жажалха (žažalxa) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Catalan: mastegar — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Catalan: masticar — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Eastern Cham: ꨟꨟꩍ (mưmưh) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Cherokee: ᎠᎩᏍᏙᎠ (agisdoa) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Chinese Mandarin: 嚼 (jiáo, jué) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Chinese Mandarin: 咀嚼 (jǔjué) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Czech: žvýkat — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Danish: tygge — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Danish: gumle — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Drung: mya — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Dutch: kauwen — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Esperanto: maĉi — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Esperanto: remaĉi — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Estonian: mäluma — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Estonian: närima — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Evenki: седями (seʒami) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Faroese: tyggja — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Finnish: pureskella — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Finnish: jauhaa — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• French: mâcher — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• French: mordiller — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• French: mastiquer — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Friulian: mastiâ — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Galician: mastigar — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Georgian: ცოხნა (coxna) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Georgian: ღეჭვა (ɣeč̣va) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• German: kauen — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• German: chätsche — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Greek: μασάω (masáo) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Ancient Greek: μασάομαι (masáomai) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Hebrew: לעס (la'ás) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Hindi: चबाना (cabānā) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• White Hmong: zom — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Hungarian: rág — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Icelandic: tyggja — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Indonesian: kunyah — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Ingrian: närriä — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Interlingua: masticar — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Irish: cogain — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Middle Irish: con·cnaí — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Middle Irish: cocnaid — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Old Irish: con·cná — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Italian: masticare — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Iu Mien: nziuc — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Japanese: 咀嚼する (soshaku suru) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Japanese: 噛む (kamu) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Javanese: mamah — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Old Javanese: gugut — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Kalmyk: җаҗлх (jajlx) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Kazakh: шайнау (şainau) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Khakas: тайнирға (taynirğa) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Khmer: ទំពា (tumpie) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Korean: 깨물다 (kkaemulda) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Korean: 씹다 (ssipda) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Central Kurdish: جوون (cûn) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Northern Kurdish: cûtin — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Kyrgyz: чайноо (caynoo) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Lao: ຄ້ຽວ (khiāu) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Latin: mandūcō — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Latin: masticō — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Latvian: košļāt — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Lingala: táma — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Lithuanian: kramtyti — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Livvi: puretella — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Macedonian: џвака (džvaka) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Malay: kunyah — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Malay: mamah — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Maltese: magħad — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Manchu: ᠨᡳᠶᠠᠩᡤᡡᠮᠪᡳ (niyanggūmbi) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Manchu: ᠨᡳᠶᠠᠨᡳᠣᠮᠪᡳ (niyaniombi) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: mama' — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Māori: kamukamu — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Marathi: चावणे (cāvṇe) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Megleno-Romanian: mastic — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Megleno-Romanian: mestic — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Mongolian: зажлах (zažlax) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Mongolian: мэрэх (merex) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Nahuatl: tlanchoa — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Neapolitan: mazzecà — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Nepali: चपाउनु (capāunu) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Norwegian: tygge — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Old English: ċēowan — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Old Norse: tyggja — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Pennsylvania German: kaue — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Pennsylvania German: tschaae — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Persian: جویدن (javidan) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Pohnpeian: rukoa — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Polabian: zavăt — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Polish: żuć — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Polish: przeżuwać — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Portuguese: mastigar — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Portuguese: mascar — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Romanian: mesteca — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Russian: жева́ть (ževátʹ) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Sanskrit: खादति (khādati) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Scottish Gaelic: cnuasaich — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Serbo-Croatian: жвакати — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Serbo-Croatian: žvakati — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Sherpa: མུར (mur) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Sicilian: masticari — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Sicilian: macicari — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Slovak: žuť — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Slovene: žvečiti — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Lower Sorbian: kusaś — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Upper Sorbian: kusać — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Spanish: masticar — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Spanish: mascar — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Spanish: gandir — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Spanish: chacchar — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Spanish: picchar (coca) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Spanish: picchear (coca) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Swedish: tugga — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Swedish: förtära — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Tagalog: nguya — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Tai Dón: ꪵꪁꪫꫂ — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Tamil: சவை (cavai) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Tamil: மெல் (mel) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Telugu: నములు (namulu) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Tetum: mama — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Thai: เคี้ยว (kíao) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Tibetan: མུར (mur) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Tocharian B: tresk- — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Turkish: çiğnemek — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Ottoman Turkish: چیكنهمك (çiğnemek) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Ottoman Turkish: كومك (gevmek) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Tuvan: дайнаар (daynaar) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Ukrainian: жува́ти (žuváty) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Unami: shëshkòmwi — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Unami: shëshkònta — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Uzbek: chaynamoq — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Venetan: mastegar — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Vietnamese: nhai — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Vietnamese: nhằn — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Vietnamese: nhá — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Welsh: cnoi — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Welsh: cildroi — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Yakut: ыстаа (ïstaa) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Zazaki: cawıtene (diq) — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Zazaki: cawitiş — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Zazaki: cawen — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Zazaki: koçen — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• Zulu: hlafuna — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing
• ǃXóõ: ǁkxʻám — to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing