Plug vs. Chaw

Plugnoun

(electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.

‘I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.’;

Chawnoun

Chewing tobacco.

‘When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth.’;

Plugnoun

Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.

‘Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.’;

Chawnoun

(countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.

Plugnoun

(US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.

‘He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.’;

Chawnoun

(obsolete) The jaw.

Plugnoun

A high, tapering silk hat.

Chawverb

To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud)

Plugnoun

A worthless horse.

‘That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!’;

Chawverb

To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider

Plugnoun

(dated) Any worn-out or useless article.

Chawverb

To steal.

‘Some pikey's chawed my bike.’;

Plugnoun

(construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.

Chawverb

To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.

‘The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped,Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood.’;

Plugnoun

(slang) A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features one or more of these.

‘During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.’;

Chawverb

To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.

Plugnoun

(geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.

‘Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.’;

Chawnoun

As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.

Plugnoun

(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.

‘The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.’;

Chawnoun

The jaw.

Plugnoun

(horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.

Chawnoun

a wad of something chewable as tobacco

Plugnoun

(jewellery) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.

Chawverb

chew without swallowing;

‘chawtobacco’;

Plugnoun

(slang) A drug dealer.

Plugnoun

A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.

Plugverb

(transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

‘He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.’;

Plugverb

(transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.

‘The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.’;

Plugverb

To persist or continue with something.

‘Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.’;

Plugverb

(transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.

Plugverb

To have sex with, penetrate sexually.

‘I'd love to plug him.’;

Plugnoun

Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

Plugnoun

A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.

Plugnoun

A high, tapering silk hat.

Plugnoun

A worthless horse.

Plugnoun

A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.

Plugverb

To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

Plugnoun

blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly

Plugnoun

a wad of something chewable as tobacco

Plugnoun

blatant or sensational promotion

Plugnoun

electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark

Plugnoun

an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection

Plugnoun

an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire

Plugnoun

an old or over-worked horse

Plugverb

fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug;

‘plug the hole’; ‘stop up the leak’;

Plugverb

persist in working hard;

‘Students must plug away at this problem’;

Plugverb

deliver a quick blow to;

‘he punched me in the stomach’;

Plugverb

make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote