rechew
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Nor could He (as some Beasts rechew their meat, To cause the same the better to disgest) Rechew this Bread,"
- "When nibbling Sheep at large pursue their Food, And unmolested Kine rechew the Cud;"
- "The sailor now drew from the receptacle just named a dirty piece of folded paper, deeply impregnated with the perfume of stale and oft rechewed quids of coarse tobacco;"
- "The harder Small sang, the harder the cow chewed and the faster she twiddled her ears around as if stirring the song into the food to be rechewed in cud along with her breakfast."
- "His mind insisted on rechewing its doubts, rather than engage in constructive thought."
- "[…] his disease is mostly impatience with contemporary trends in art and literature that have passed him by. And so he rechews the classics, “which those ignorant fellows never bothered to read,” […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English chew English rechew From re- + chew.