Main entry: chew, chewing, manduction, mastication
Definition: biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
Main entry: plug, quid, wad, chaw, chew, cud
Definition: a wad of something chewable as tobacco
Main entry: chew, jaw, manducate, masticate
Definition: chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
Usage: He jawed his bubble gum; Chew your food and don't swallow it!; The cows were masticating the grass