Definitions

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  • noun archaic A person who is not intelligent or interested in culture.

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  • noun a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

Etymologies

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chaw +‎ bacon?

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Examples

  • “The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chawbacon, and numberless other pretty names.

    XI. Arcadian Simplicity 1917

  • I once knew a chawbacon who came to town and was barked at by a street-dog.

    Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

  • "That it is so, take," said he, "any young boy of the present time, who hath only studied two years: if he have not a better judgment, a better discourse, and that exprest in better terms, than your son, with a completer carriage and civility to all manner of persons, account me forever a chawbacon of La Brène."

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I Various 1885

  • 'I contend for it that all our civilisation is higher, and that class for class we are in a more advanced culture than the English; that your chawbacon is not as intelligent a being as our bogtrotter; that your petty shopkeeper is inferior to ours; that throughout our middle classes there is not only a higher morality but a higher refinement than with you.'

    Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839

  • Yes, Keller acknowledges he has an audience of basket cases who need some chawbacon to tell'em how God talks.

    Maggie's Farm Bird Dog 2010

  • Yes, Keller acknowledges he has an audience of basket cases who need some chawbacon to tell'em how God talks.

    Maggie's Farm Bird Dog 2010

  • And more -- for the benefit of any shirt-tail chawbacon with a big mouth, I'm a who's-yar boy from Indiana myself, and I've put down better men than you just by spitting teeth at them. [

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • And more -- for the benefit of any shirt-tail chawbacon with a big mouth, I'm a who's-yar boy from Indiana myself, and I've put down better men than you just by spitting teeth at them. [

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

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