† chewetn.1
Obsolete.
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.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > meat or fish dishes
chewet14..
escabeche1699
ballotine1846
teriyaki1962
jerk1966
teppan-yaki1970
tataki1971
chermoula1974
14.. Noble Bk. Cookry (1882) 55 To mak chewettes of beef tak beef and cutt it smalle, etc.
c1430 15th c. Cookery. Bks. 48 Chawettys. Take buttys of Vele, etc.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 41 Chewetes on fysshe day...Chewetes on flesshe daye.
c1540 Image Ipocrysy ii, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 429 Servinge ther god, ther belly, With chuettes and with gelly.
1594 Huswifes Handm. Kitchin 39 Make two Chewets as you would make two Tarts.
1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. ii. 81 A chewet Pye.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §54 Chuetts, which are likewise minced Meat.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii Chewit, or small Pie: minced or otherwise.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
† chewetn.2
Obsolete. rare.
A chough: applied to a chatterer, prater.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person
chaterestrea1250
jangler1303
babbler1366
blabbererc1375
jangleressc1386
talkerc1386
clatterer1388
cacklera1400
languager1436
carperc1440
mamblerc1450
praterc1500
jackdaw?1520
chewet1546
flibbertigibbet1549
clatterfart1552
patterer1552
piec1557
long tongue?1562
prattler1567
piet1574
twattler1577
brawler1581
nimble-chops1581
pratepie1582
roita1585
whittera1585
full-mouth1589
interprater1591
chatterer1592
pianet1594
bablatrice1595
parakeet1598
Bow-bell cockney1600
prattle-basket1602
bagpipe1603
worder1606
babliaminy1608
chougha1616
gabbler1624
blatterer1627
magpie1632
prate-apace1636
rattlea1637
clack1640
blateroon1647
overtalker1654
prate-roast1671
prattle-box1671
babelard1678
twattle-basket1688
mouth1699
tongue-pad1699
chatterista1704
rattler1709
morologist1727
chatterbox1774
palaverer1788
gabber1792
whitter-whatter1805
slangwhanger1807
nash-gab1816
pump1823
windbag1827
big mouth1834
gasbag1841
chattermag1844
tattle-monger1848
rattletrap1850
gasser1855
mouth almighty1864
clucker1869
talky-talky1869
gabster1870
loudmouth1870
tonguester1871
palaverista1873
mag1876
jawsmith1887
spieler1894
twitterer1895
yabbler1901
wordster1904
poofter1916
blatherer1920
ear-bender1922
burbler1923
woofer1934
ear-basher1944
motormouth1955
yacker1960
yammerer1978
jay-
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun]
crowa700
choughc1305
crakec1320
chewet1546
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hiiv Chattyng to chydyng is not woorth a chuet.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. i. 29 Peace chewet, peace. View more context for this quotation
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