chewet
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English chewet.
Noun edit
chewet (plural chewets)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
chewet (plural chewets)
- (obsolete) A chough or jackdaw.
- A chatterbox.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 69:
- Peace, Chewet, peace.
- A chatterbox.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chewet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unknown; formed as if from chewen + -et; but the OED considers this unlikely.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chewet (plural chewets)
- A chewet (kind of meat pie).
Descendants edit
- English: chewet (obsolete)
References edit
- “cheuet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-19.