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Is chaw a Scrabble word?

Yes, chaw is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 12 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of chaw?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (countable) That which is chewed.countable

2. (Appalachia, informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.Examples: "When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth."; ""YOU give him a chaw, did you? So did your sister's cat's grandmother. You pay me back the chaws you've awready borry'd off'n me, Lafe Buckner, then I'll loan you one or two ton of it, and won't charge you no back intrust, nuther.""; "He […] went into the store and behind the counter and reached up and got the plug of chewing tobacco and unwrapped it and bit off a chaw."Appalachiainformaluncountable

verb (English)

1. (archaic or nonstandard outside dialects, e.g. Appalachia, Southern US) To chew; grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud).Examples: "The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,"; "And next to him malicious Envy rode, Upon a ravenous wolfe, and still did chaw Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode […]"; "The Man who laugh'd but once, to see an Ass Mumbling to make the cross-grained Thistles pass, Might laugh again, to see a Jury chaw The prickles of unpalatable Law."Southern-US

2. (obsolete, transitive) To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider.Examples: ""I home retourning, fraught with fowle despight, And chawing vengeaunce all the way I went, Soone as my loathed love appeard in sight, With wrathfull hand I slew her innocent;"obsoletetransitive

3. (UK, slang) To steal.Examples: "Some pikey's chawed my bike."UKslang

4. (dialectal, intransitive) To be sulky.dialectalintransitive

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) The jaw.Examples: "all the poison ran about his chaw"obsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "chaw"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "chaw"?

Scrabble
12 points
C3
H4
A1
W4
Words With Friends
12 points
C4
H3
A1
W4

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