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Definition of Chew out

1. Verb. Censure severely or angrily. "Sam cannot chew out Sue "; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

Definition of Chew out

1. Verb. (idiomatic US) To lecture, scold, reprimand, or rebuke. ¹

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Literary usage of Chew out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Letters to Washington, and Accompanying Papers by George Washington, Stanislaus Murray Hamilton (1899)
"Weedon with a Command of Men who followed their Tracts till dark, returning home I sent Ensign chew out again this morning to Reconnoiter on the other side ..."

2. Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia: On the Care of the Aged and Maximianus by Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind (1988)
"... When the young vipers in the uterus do not wait for the natural solution of birth they chew out the mother snake's sides and burst out by force. ..."

3. Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia: On the Care of the Aged, & Maximianus, Elegies ...by Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind by Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind (1988)
"63° When the young vipers in the uterus do not wait for the natural solution of birth they chew out the mother snake's sides and burst out by force. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"On either upper or under side they chew out narrow grooves or channels, at first close to and parallel with some of the principal veins; later, ..."

5. Transactions of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (1908)
"... even as woman chew out the filaments of his garment. The distaff in the left hand carried the carded fibres. The spindle, a stick about a foot long, ..."

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