[f. CHAW v. + BACON.] A ludicrous or contemptuous designation for a country clown; a bumpkin.
1822. J. Wilson, Noctes Ambr., in Blackwood’s Mag., XII. 379. You live cheap with chaw-bacons, and see a fine flat country.
1863. Cornh. Mag., March, 444. His companions are all the while laughing at him as an innocent, as a greenhorn, as a chaw-bacon.
1880. Jefferies, Greene Ferne Farm, 70. Poor Felix could do nothing but beat a retreat with half a dozen grinning chawbacons watching him.
