manducate
verb
[ ˈmandjʊkeɪt ]
• chew or eat.
• "she fell upon the wretched vegetable and manducated it"
Origin:
early 17th century (earlier (early 16th century) as manducation ): from Latin manducat- ‘chewed’, from the verb manducare, from manduco ‘guzzler’, from mandere ‘to chew’.
