英语词汇chew的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	chew
词源	chew v. Middle English cheuen, from Old English ceowan "to bite, gnaw, chew," from West Germanic keuwwan (source also of Middle Low German keuwen, Dutch kauwen, Old High German kiuwan, German kauen), perhaps from PIE gyeu- "to chew" (source also of Old Church Slavonic živo "to chew," Lithuanian žiaunos "jaws," Persian javidan "to chew"). The figurative sense of "to think over" is from late 14c.; to chew the rag "discuss some matter" is from 1885, apparently originally British army slang. Related: Chewed; chewing. To chew (someone) out (1948) probably is military slang from World War II. Chewing-gum is by 1843, American English, originally hardened secretions of the spruce tree. chew n. c. 1200, cheu, "an act of chewing," from chew (v.). The meaning "wad of tobacco chewed at one time" is from 1725; as a kind of chewy candy, by 1906. Entries linking to chew chaw v. "to chew, chew roughly," 1520s, unexplained phonetic variant of chew (v.). OED notes that the variant form chow was "very common in 16-17th c." Bartlett's "Dictionary of Americanisms" [1859] says chaw, "Although found in good authors, ... is retained, in this country as in England, only by the illiterate." Related: Chawed; chawing. The noun meaning "that which is chewed" (especially a quid of tobacco) is recorded from 1709. chewable adj. "that may be chewed," 1827, from chew (v.) + -able. jaw n. late 14c., jowe, joue, "the bones of the mouth," "A word of difficult etymology" [OED]. Probably from Old French joue "cheek," originally jode, from Gallo-Romance gauta or directly from Gaulish gabata, but there are phonetic problems; or perhaps a variant of Germanic words related to chew (v.); compare also the two nouns jowl. Replaced Old English ceace, ceafl. Jaws as "holding and gripping part of an appliance" is from mid-15c.; figuratively, of time, death, defeat, etc., from 1560s. updated on December 05, 2022
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