chavel
See also: čhavêl
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English chavel, from Old English ċeafl (“a bill, beak, snout, jaw, jaw-bone, cheek, cheek-bone”), from Proto-West Germanic *kafl, from Proto-Germanic *kaflaz (“jaw”). Doublet of jowl; see there for more.
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Noun edit
chavel (plural chavels)
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Verb edit
chavel (third-person singular simple present chavels, present participle chavelling, simple past and past participle chavelled)
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To chew.
- 1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock:
- The bracken lay sere under the trees, broken and chavelled by the restless wild winds of the long winter.
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Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
- chevel, chaule, chawel, chavyl, chawil, chawyl, chavalle, chaul, chewil
- chefle, chafle (Early Middle English)
- jawe, jawle (influenced by the syn. joue)
Etymology edit
From Old English ċeafl, from Proto-West Germanic *kafl, from Proto-Germanic *kaflaz.
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Noun edit
chavel (plural chaveles)
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References edit
- “chā̆vel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Romansch edit
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Noun edit
chavel m (plural chavels)
- (single strand of) hair