chig

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chig¹

verb chigs · chigging · chigged

  1. UK, dialectal, transitive To chew.

noun chigs

  1. UK, dialectal A piece of chewing tobacco; a quid.

chig²

interjection

  1. onomatopoeic Representing a sharp and repetitive sound. So I'm slicing beans one after the other—chig, chig, chig, chig, chig—and everybody's giving me the beans, and I'm going like sixty when the boss comes by and says, "What are you doing?"

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@misc{chig_2026,
  title = {chig},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chig},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}