chaw n Cp EDD ~ v 1 'to chew.'
   1 Talk; a talkative person.
   1904 Daily News 17 Aug "Bond the 'Curled Darling' and 'Paddy McGraw"': Give me Bond and good pickins'—I'll laugh at their 'chaw'; / They may go to the 'dickens,' said Paddy McGraw. [1927 BURKE] "Cadwell the Chaw": In the paper Digest, one Cy Cadwell the Chaw, / Writes a lot of old thrash of the queer sights he saw, / And in the same paper the Chaw makes a boast / Of the strange lot of dwellers around the West Coast. 1927 DOYLE (ed) 65 "Captain Bill Ryan Left Terry Behind": Terry is a fine young man, / But he has a lot of 'chaw,' / He thought to do the devil and all, / When he got the Esquimaux. P 110-68 More chaw than a sheep's head' refers to one who talks too much.
   2 Phr chaw and glutch: a meat of bread and tea.
   P 74-67 We got a feed of chaw and glutch (bread and tea). C 69-17 During the Depression bread and tea became a standard meal of many people and became known as chaw and glutch (chew and swallow). From this came the grace: For this bit of chaw and glutch We thank thee Lord so very much.
   3 Comb chaw bag, ~ mouth: a gossip (P 148-65).
   1904 Daily News 3 Oct "The Shan Van Vought": There's 'big Tom' the Jader's chum... / He's another 'chaw mouth' bum. 1930 BARNES 350 'Aw, go on, you're only a chaw-mouth.' That was a great word them days.

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