chewing-gum

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English

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Noun

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chewing-gum (countable and uncountable, plural chewing-gums)

  1. Dated form of chewing gum.
    • 1862 January 4, Jonesboro Weekly Gazette, volume XII, number 49, Jonesboro, Ill., front page, column 6:
      Two boys, one aged eight and the other twelve years, in Rome, Oneida county, N. Y., a few days ago, had a childish altercation about some chewing-gum and pop-corn, and, as they separated, threw at each other with sticks and other missiles, []
    • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 75:
      [] What I like is chewing-gum.” “O, I should say so! I wish I had some now.” “Do you? I’ve got some. I’ll let you chew it awhile, but you must give it back to me.”
    • 1940 April 27, Max Stafford, “Speed on the Sands”, in Illustrated Leicester Chronicle, page 18, column 3:
      Then he wrenched off the top of a box, and commenced to cram chewing-gum into his mouth. Sticks of it; dozens of sticks.

Anagrams

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French

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chewing-gum en tablette

Etymology

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Borrowed from English chewing gum.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʃwiŋ.ɡɔm/, /ʃɥiŋ.ɡɔm/
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Noun

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chewing-gum m (plural chewing-gums)

  1. (France) chewing gum
    Synonyms: (Belgium) chique; (Canada, Louisiana, New England, Missouri) gomme à mâcher; (Canada, Louisiana, New England, Missouri) gomme

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English chewing-gum.

Noun

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chewing-gum n (uncountable)

  1. chewing gum

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