| 释义 |
chewable, a. (and n.)|ˈtʃ(j)uːəb(ə)l|
[f. chew v. + -able.]
That can be chewed. So as n. (rare), something that can be chewed.
1846[see suckable a. and n.]. 1866‘Mark Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Dec. 111/2 With what nourishment we can get from boot-legs and such chewable matter. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) 406 He was guilbey of gulpable gluttony as regards chewable boltaballs. 1967[see prec.]. |