unchewed

1 5.3

Not broken into small pieces in the mouth before swallowing

adjective
/ʌnˈtʃuːd/

: sin masticar

The dog refused to eat the unchewed piece of meat left on the floor.

Examples

"Fresh and unchewed.

Fiction book (1999)
He falls back, still seated in the chair, his open mouth filled with unchewed pastry.

Fiction book (1991)
The old man felt something—corned beef, it might have been, or a piece of unchewed bread—forcing its way up his throat, and in an awful moment he wrenched himself from the boy's side and was sick in the weeds at the edge of the shoulder.

Fiction book (1990)
She had a mouthful of unchewed food as she tried to speak.
He grimaced when he felt the unchewed carrots stuck in his teeth.

Synonyms

unbitten

vsunchewed

1 3.9

Not having any bite marks

is intact, not reduced into pieces by mouth action

Surface Forms

unchewed positive

Morphology

unchewed = chewed (transparent) = un + chew + ed

The meaning is a direct negation of the past participle 'chewed' ('not chewed'), which is straightforward for learners familiar with 'un-' + adjective and the -ed participle.

Etymology

The word unchewed breaks into un- 'not' and chew 'to bite and crush food with your teeth', so unchewed means food that was 'not chewed'.