chewy

English

Etymology

From chew +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃuː.i/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːi
• Homophone: chewie

Adjective

chewy (comparative chewier, superlative chewiest)

1. Having a pliable or springy texture when chewed.

   I must have spent an hour gnawing on the chewy taffy.

2. (oenology) Full-bodied and tannic.

   a chewy wine

Derived terms

• chewiness

 

Translations

having a pliable or springy texture when chewed

• Catalan: corretjós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 需要多嚼的 (xūyào duō jiáo de)

• Danish: sejg
• Dutch: taai (nl), rubberig
• Finnish: sitkeä (fi)
• French: caoutchouteux (fr) m or m pl, caoutchouteuse (fr) f
• German: zäh (de)
• Hungarian: rágós (hu)
• Icelandic: seigur
• Japanese: よくかめない (yoku kamenai)
• Norwegian: seig (no)
• Russian: тре́бующий продолжи́тельного жева́ния (trébujuščij prodolžítelʹnovo ževánija), тре́бующий уси́ленного жева́ния (trébujuščij usílennovo ževánija), жёсткий (ru) (žóstkij)
• Slovene: žilav
• Spanish: cauchudo, gomoso (es), recio (es), correoso (es)
• Swedish: seg (sv)
• Turkish: sert (tr)

Noun

chewy (countable and uncountable, plural chewies)

1. (Australia, informal) Alternative form of chewie (“chewing gum”)
   • 2019, Jane Godwin, As Happy as Here:

     Like when Amber gave everyone but me a piece of chewy, and I said that wasn't very nice, […]

2. (US, informal) A type of soft and sticky cookie.
   • 2006, Diana Abu-Jaber, The Language of Baklava‎^[1], page 255:

     […] Roni clears away the dishes and returns with a plate of jaw-breaking, fillings-yanking, elderly butterscotch chewies.

   • 2011, Lisa Fain, The Homesick Texan Cookbook‎^[2], page unnumbered page:

     Chocolate chewies are light, crisp, and, yes, chewy chocolate cookies that are studded with chocolate chips and pecans.

   • 2017, The Perfect Cookie: Your Ultimate Guide to Foolproof Cookies, Brownies & Bars‎^[3], page 63:

     While many versions of the chocolate chewy exist and can be found in bakeries across the country, we wanted are fined recipe for a simple-to-make cookie so we could get our chocolate fix any time.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chewy.

Anagrams

• Wyche