Usually means: Chewing persistently, especially on tobacco.
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  1. chawing: Merriam-Webster
  2. chawing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. chawing: Vocabulary.com
  4. chawing: Wordnik
  5. chawing: Wiktionary
  6. Chawing, chawing: Dictionary.com
  7. Chawing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Chawing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. chawing: FreeDictionary.org
  10. chawing: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See chaw as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (chaw)

noun:  (countable) That which is chewed.
noun:  (Appalachia, informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
verb:  (archaic or nonstandard outside dialects, e.g. Appalachia, Southern US) To chew; grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider
verb:  (UK, slang) To steal.
verb:  (dialectal, intransitive) To be sulky.
noun:  (obsolete) The jaw.
noun:  Obsolete form of cha (“tea”). [tea, sometimes (dialect) specifically masala chai]
▸ Also see chaw


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