chewing gum (choinggum)

See gum2. chewink (che-wingk'), n.' [Imitative of the bird's note.] A name of the towhee bunting, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, a fringilline bird of the marsh-robin. [Local, U. S.] United States. Also called ground- robin and whippoorwill, the brown thrasher, the veery, the wood During the first week of the month [May] I heard the pewee, the chewink, and other birds. Thoreau , Walden, p. 340.