half-chawed

Updated: May 28, 2025

"It has just come into my mind, sir, that we've forgot all about the couple that we was to have married yesterday!" 'The half-chawed victuals dropped from the pa'son's mouth as if he'd been shot. "Bless my soul," says he, "so we have! How very awkward!" "It is, sir; very. Perhaps we've ruined the 'ooman!" "Ah to be sure I remember! She ought to have been married before."

Thomas Hardy - Life's Little Ironies