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chew·y

(cho͞o′ē)

adj. chew·i·er, chew·i·est

Needing much chewing: chewy candy.

chew′i·ness n.

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chewy

(ˈtʃuːɪ)

adj, chewier or chewiest

of a consistency requiring chewing; somewhat firm and sticky

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chew•y

(ˈtʃu i)

adj. chew•i•er, chew•i•est.

(of food) not easily chewed.

[1920–25]

chew′i•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	chewy - requiring much chewing tough - resistant to cutting or chewing
	2.	chewy - (of a consistency) requiring chewing; "chewy caramels" elastic - capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy; "an elastic band"; "a youthful and elastic walk"

chewy

adjective tough, fibrous, leathery, as tough as old boots The meat was too chewy and the vegetables overcooked.

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Translations

duro da masticare

chewy

[ˈtʃuːɪ] ADJ (chewier (compar) (chewiest (superl))) → difícil de masticar; [meat] → fibroso, correoso; [sweet] → masticable

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

chewy

[ˈtʃuːi] adj [meat, bread] → difficile à mâcher; [biscuit] → mou(molle)

chewy

adj meat → zäh; pasta → kernig; sweets → weich

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

chewy

[ˈtʃuːɪ] adj (fam) → gommoso/a

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In Donovan, Hanks finds one of the chewiest late-career roles he could possibly hope for, playing the New York attorney with fists balled and belly slightly paunched, simultaneously non-threatening and ready for a fight.

Bridge of Spies

With the elimination of chocolate and the substitution of a rich unsweetened cocoa powder, which I always have lying around, this recipe has been described by Alice Medrich, a well-known baker and the creator of this recipe, as having "the softest center and chewiest candylike top 'crust' of all because all of the fat in the recipe (except for a small amount of cocoa butter in the cocoa) is butter, and all of the sugar is granulated sugar rather than the finely milled sugar used in chocolate."

Buttered Up: Candy-like crusted cocoa brownies

Table-cut is the thickest and chewiest.Quick-cooking oats: flakes rolled thinner to cook more rapidly.Instant oats: thin, pre-cooked flakes.Steel-cut oats (sometimes called Irish or Scotch oats): whole groats chopped into pieces.