Word: chomped
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...accepting a beauty contest judgeship from Syracuse University Artist Flagg declared: "All sorts of colleges every year do this to me . . . and I have had to gaze on some of the most god-awful female mugs in this broad tho' narrow land. . . ." -ED. Chaunk v. Chomp...
...think you should leave it up to the Ambassador before you add "chomp" to the dictionary. If he says he would rather "chomp" than "chaunk" all right. I give up. But after "chaunking" all my life and supposing it was "chaunking" I am going to be disappointed to go to "chomping...
Eccentric Harald Plum has long been Copenhagen's butter Croesus. The boom of a cannon across the harbor came to mean merely that he was through business for the day and had sailed out to Plum Island, to chomp voraciously through a rich dinner topped with pastry and champagne...
...years ago that Mr. Adams and his son paid a call on General Santa Anna of Mexico at Snug Harbor, Staten Island. From a bureau drawer the General produced "a little chunk of something resembling overshoeing." The guests beheld him place a piece of this substance in his mouth, chomp his jaws, smile. They dubiously examined the "overshoeing," which the General called "chicle" and said was the gum of the zapote tree. They too chomped, smiled...