A wad of something chewable as tobacco.

synonyms: chaw, cud, plug, quid, wad.

Dutch: pruim, tabakspruim

Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow.

synonyms: chewing, manduction, mastication.

Dutch: het kauwen, kauwen, kauwbeweging

Chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth:
— Chew your food and don't swallow it!.

synonyms: jaw, manducate, masticate.

Roget 298: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in [Slang]; lick, pick, peck; gormandize etc. 957; bite, champ, munch, cranch^†, craunch^†, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.    live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale; carouse etc. (make merry) 840; eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet.    break bread, break one's fast; breakfast, lunch, dine, take tea, sup.    drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill [Slang], chugalug [Slang], tipple etc. (be drunken) 959; empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle.    purvey etc. 637.    ... show more

Roget 392: be pungent etc. adj.; bite the tongue.    render pungent etc. adj.; season, spice, salt, pepper, pickle, brine, devil.    smoke, chew, take snuff.    ... show more

Dutch: fijnkauwen, kauwen, malen