chewing-gum
See also: chewing gum
English edit
Noun edit
chewing-gum (countable and uncountable, plural chewing-gums)
- Dated form of chewing gum.
- 1862 January 4, Jonesboro Weekly Gazette, volume XII, number 49, Jonesboro, Ill., front page, column 6:
- Two boys, one aged eight and the other twelve years, in Rome, Oneida county, N. Y., a few days ago, had a childish altercation about some chewing-gum and pop-corn, and, as they separated, threw at each other with sticks and other missiles, […]
- 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 75:
- “[…] What I like is chewing-gum.” “O, I should say so! I wish I had some now.” “Do you? I’ve got some. I’ll let you chew it awhile, but you must give it back to me.”
- 1940 April 27, Max Stafford, “Speed on the Sands”, in Illustrated Leicester Chronicle, page 18, column 3:
- Then he wrenched off the top of a box, and commenced to cram chewing-gum into his mouth. Sticks of it; dozens of sticks.
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English chewing gum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chewing-gum m (plural chewing-gums)
- (France) chewing gum
- Synonyms: (Belgium) chique; (Canada) gomme à mâcher; (Canada) gomme
Synonyms edit
- chiclet (Belgium, Switzerland)
- chiclette, chiquelette (Belgium, Switzerland)
- pâte à mâcher (Belgium, Switzerland)
Further reading edit
- “chewing-gum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English chewing-gum.
Noun edit
chewing-gum n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of chewing-gum (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) chewing-gum | chewing-gumul |
genitive/dative | (unui) chewing-gum | chewing-gumului |
vocative | chewing-gumule |