prechew

verb

Etymology

From pre- + chew.

  1. derived from *ǵyewh₁-
  2. inherited from *kewwaną
  3. inherited from *keuwan
  4. inherited from ċēowan
  5. inherited from chewen
  6. prefixed as prechew — “pre + chew

Definitions

  1. To chew (food) in advance.

    • In “A Man Among Wolves,” a bizarre and riveting nature documentary that will be shown tonight on the National Geographic Channel, a British former gamekeeper named Shaun Ellis feeds wolf cubs prechewed food from his own mouth.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prechew. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA