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单词 unchewed
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unchewedadj.

Etymology: un- prefix1 2. Compare unchawed adj., and Middle Dutch ongecouwet, -kauwet, Dutch ongekaauwd, German ungekaut.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈchewed.
Not chewed.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adjective] > relating to chewing > chewed > not chewed
unchawed1580
uncheweda1644
unchawn1648
a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) ix Say, do you eat and grind it,..Or like an unchew'd Pill, but swallow't down?
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 528 His mouth runs o're With unchew'd Morsels.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 56 All,..Wide-expanding their voracious Jaws, Morsel on Morsel swallow down unchew'd.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Cubbitting Horses addicted to this vice are but of small value; they drop a great part of their food unchewed.
1884 R. Browning Two Camels in Ferishtah's Fancies No sprig Of toothsome chervil must I leave unchewed!
figurative.1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) To Parl. sig. A2v If shee presume to bring forth ought, that sorts not with their unchew'd notions and suppositions.1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 5 Not weigh'd, or winnow'd by the Multitude; But swallow'd in the Mass, unchew'd and Crude.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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