单词 | rechew |
释义 | rechewv. transitive. To chew again. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > chew > thoroughly or again commanducate1599 rechew1609 ruminate1610 rechaw1614 fletcherize1903 1609 J. Davies Holy Roode sig. G3v Nor could He (as some Beasts rechew their meat..) Rechew this Bread. 1666 A. Brome et al. tr. Horace Poems 368 When we reading our own Verse, repeat As Cud to be rechew'd what's tastless meat. 1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 292 When..unmolested Kine rechew the Cud. 1744 Ornithologia Nova II. 37 It has..two Craws, the uppermost being only a receptacle, or Sack for the Food,..to be again return'd to the Mouth, where it is rechew'd. 1856 J. Cumming Script. Reading Deut. xiv. 228 The animal that rechews its food as the sheep. a1898 W. C. Brann Brann Iconoclast (1911) I. 124 The stupid prevaricator, who rechews the fetid vomit of other villains. 1938 E. G. Ritzman & F. G. Benedict Nutritional Physiol. Adult Ruminant 96 The ruminant..almost invariably lies down after eating, to rechew the cud. 1965 Italica 42 90 The lord and master of all frozen within himself, intent only on chewing and rechewing his few triumphs. 2004 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 14 May (Sports section) 2 See Kenny Wallace spit out his gum, fetch it and rechew it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1609 |
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