moil(4) (iou) and chew 1, verb (oh)

moil(4) (iou)

moil verb. LME.
[Old French moillier wet, moisten, paddle in mud (mod. mouiller) from Proto-Romance, from Latin mollis soft.]
verb trans. Wet, moisten; soil, bedaub. Now arch. & dial. LME.
b. fig. Defile. rare. L16-M17.
verb intrans. Toil, work hard, drudge. Freq. in toil and moil. M16.
verb trans. Weary, fatigue; harass, worry. Chiefly refl. & in pass. Now rare or obsolete. M16.
verb intrans. & trans. Burrow (in). Long obsolete exc. dial. M16.
verb intrans. Move around in agitation or confusion; swirl, mill about. M20.

chew 1, verb (oh)

[Language: Old English; Origin: ceowan]
[I and T] to bite Food several times before swallowing it
::This meat's so tough I can hardly chew it!
chew at/on
::a dog chewing on a bone
[I and T] to bite something continuously in order to taste it or because you are nervous
chew on
::We gave the dog an old shoe to chew on.
chew your lip/nails
::She chewed her lip and said nothing.
chew gum/tobacco
chew the cud
if a cow or sheep chews the cud, it keeps biting on Food it has brought up from its stomach
chew the fat
informal to have a long friendly conversation
-see also bite off more than you can chew at bite 1 (10)
chew on [chew on sth] phr v
informal to think carefully about something for a period of time
chew out [chew sb ¡û¡ú out] phr v
to talk angrily to someone in order to show them that you disapprove of what they have done
::John couldn't get the guy to cooperate and so I had to call and chew him out.
chew over [chew sth ¡û¡ú over] phr v
to think carefully about something for a period of time
::Let me chew it over for a few days.
chew up [chew sth ¡û¡ú up] phr v
to damage or destroy something by tearing it into small pieces
::Be careful if you use that Video recorder. It tends to chew tapes up.
to bite something many times with your teeth so that you can make it smaller or softer and swallow it
::The dog's chewed up my slippers again.

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