chewer

English

Etymology

chew +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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Noun

chewer (plural chewers)

1. One who chews.
   • 1848, Western Lancet:

     Has been a tobacco chewer thirty-eight years, and a portion of the time to great excess.

   • 1994, Cynthia P. Smith, The Dog:

     Gum-chewer syndrome: self-inflicted sublingual and self-inflicted buccal trauma.

Derived terms

• garlic chewer
• nonchewer
• scenery-chewer

 

Anagrams

• chewre, rechew