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▪ I. † ˈchewet1 Obs.
Also 5 chewette, chawette, 6 chuette, 7 chuet(t, chewit.
[Derivation uncertain: it can hardly be referred to chew v.]
A dish made of various kinds of meat or fish, chopped fine, mixed with spices and fruits, and baked, fried, or boiled. Later also chewet-pie.
c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 41 Chewetes on fysshe day. Chewetes on flesshe daye. c143015th c. Cookery. Bks. 48 Chawettys. Take buttys of Vele, etc. 14..Noble Bk. Cookry (1882) 55 To mak chewettes of beef tak beef and cutt it smalle, etc. a1529Skelton Image Hypocr. ii. 556 Servinge ther god, ther belly With chuettes and with gelly. 1594Huswifes Handm. Kitchin 39 Make two Chewets as you would make two Tarts. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. ii. (1668) 81 A chewet Pye. 1626Bacon Sylva (1651) 14 Chuetts, which are likewise minced meat. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. iii, Chewit, or small Pie: minced or otherwise.
▪ II. † ˈchewet2 Obs. rare.
[a. F. chouette ‘a chough, cadesse, daw, jackdaw’ (Cotgr.).]
A chough: applied to a chatterer, prater.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 56 Chatting to chiding is not woorth a chuet. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. i. 29 Peace, Chewet, peace. |