chewableadj.n.
/ˈtʃ(j)uːəb(ə)l/ That can be chewed. So as n. (rare), something that can be chewed.
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the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [noun] > chewy substance
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the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > chewable
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1846 M. Williams Elem. Gram. Sanscrit p. 9 This division of food into four kinds, lickables, drinkables, chewables, and suckables, is not unusual in Indian writings.
1866 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Dec. 111/2 With what nourishment we can get from boot-legs and such chewable matter.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake iii. 406 He was guilbey of gulpable gluttony as regards chewable boltaballs.
1967 L. Deighton London Dossier 158 Chewable trifles such as wine-gums..and nougat-based chews on sticks.
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