Translation for 'to chew' from English to French

to chew

mâcher

to chew sth.

mordiller qc.

mastiquer qc. [mâcher]

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to chew (tobacco)

chiquer (du tabac)

to chew on sth. [idiom]

avoir du fil à retordre à qc. [loc.]

to chew over sth. [coll.] [idiom]

ruminer qc. [penser constamment à]

to chew sth. for sb. [e.g. a child]

mâcher qc. à qn. [fam.]

to chew sth. over [coll.] [idiom]

cogiter sur qc.

to chew up sth. [coll.]

mâcher qc.tech.

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to chew (away) at sth.

mâchouiller qc. [fam.]

to chew one's lip

se mordiller les lèvres

to chew the cud

ruminerzool.

to chew the fat [coll.] [idiom]

bavarder

to chew the rag [coll.] [idiom]

bavarder

• It is particularly a favorite for the story-teller (usually a society elder), as it is delicious, and easy to chew and swallow.
• The introductions always started with a bizarre exaggeration to make the crowd laugh such as "Back in the day when monkey use to chew tobacco" and ended with the classic Creole line "if the pin neva ben, di story neva end".
• The word comes from the Old French "mangier" (meaning "to eat"), from Latin "mandere" (meaning "to chew").
• ('sweet wood') to chew on as a candy. Through chewing and suckling, the intensely sweet flavour is released.
• This caused air flow from the nostrils to travel to a position in the back of the mouth instead of directly through it, allowing cynodonts to chew and breathe at the same time.

• The word "ruminant" comes from the Latin "ruminare", which means "to chew over again".
• The website's critical consensus states: "Though it features some of the most memorable and electrifying aerial footage shot with an expert eye for action, "Top Gun" offers too little for non-adolescent viewers to chew on when its characters aren't in the air."
• In canines and ruminants, however, it is entirely striated to allow regurgitation to feed young (canines) or regurgitation to chew cud (ruminants).
• Melba toast is also available commercially, and was at one time given to infants who were teething as a hard food substance on which to chew.
• Camels' mouths have a thick leathery lining, allowing them to chew thorny desert plants.

• Kittens are able to chew solid food around 5–6 weeks after birth, and it is recommended that 30% of their diet should consist of solid food at this time.
• It was the sultan's privilege to chew mastic, and it was considered to have healing properties.
• The males' only tasks are to mate with the females while still within the fig syconium (inverted flower) and to chew a hole for the females to escape from the fig interior.
• Young shoots are often eaten by animals because the fibers in the new growth have not yet completed secondary cell wall development, making the young shoots softer and easier to chew and digest.
• The curvature may also be diagonal, stemming from a wear pattern, offset incisors, or pain in the cheek teeth (rather than the incisors), which causes the horse to chew in one direction over the other.

• As their teeth wear down, older tuatara have to switch to softer prey such as earthworms, larvae, and slugs, and eventually have to chew their food between smooth jaw bones.
• Miller lost 25 pounds in three weeks as a prisoner of war, eating boiled chicken, rice and bread so hard he had to throw it against the wall to be able to chew it.
• During moulting, a bird may get careless and begin to chew its feathers and might accidentally damage a blood feather.
• They might demand a lot of attention from their owners and have a tendency to chew on or suck on objects, such as fabric and the fingers of their owners; this can lead them to accidentally ingest objects such as tennis balls.
• Detailed body examinations would include looking for signs of sexually transmitted diseases, vaccination marks, lesions and rashes; the scrotum and anus would also be checked; there would be a stethoscopic examination of the heart, lung and abdomen; the hands and feet, elbows and knees would be studied for lameness, weakness and deformities; teeth (for loss and decay as being unable to chew because of poor oral hygiene was a common cause for failing the medical examination); eyesight and hearing.