Masticate vs Unexpected - What's the difference?
masticate | unexpected |
To chew (food).
To grind or knead something into a pulp.
Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 *
As a verb masticate
is to chew (food).As an adjective unexpected is
not expected, anticipated or foreseen.masticate
English
Verb
(masticat)- The cow stood, quietly masticating its cud.
Quotations
{{timeline, 1800s=1832 1892 1896, 1900s=1927}} * 1832 — , ch. 4 *: The fat boy rose, opened his eyes, swallowed the huge piece of pie he had been in the act of masticating when he last fell asleep, and slowly obeyed his master’s orders. * 1892 — , ch. 12 *: 'By tasting it, to be sure,' said I, masticating a morsel that Kory-Kory had just put in my mouth. * 1896 — , ch. 8 *: He resumed his meal. "I had no idea of it," he said, and masticated . * 1927-1929'— *: The vegetables were not to be cooked but merely grated fine, if I could not masticate them. * 2001 - , The Pickup *: The friends watch the two make their way between other habitué's masticating , drinking, crouched in a scrum of conversation...''See also
* mastic * masticable * mastication * masticator * masticatoryAnagrams
* English transitive verbs ----unexpected
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
- The windmill presented unexpected difficulties.