"chewing sponge" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1988, Christine Botchway, Spears Down, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Publishers, page 3",
          "text": "The woman was vigorously scrubbing her teeth with a piece of chewing sponge.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Ebow Daniel, A Tale of Cape Coast, Accra: Woeli Publishing Services, page 26",
          "text": "Her chores began in the morning with taking to Ewuraba, in a saucer, a piece of chewing sponge dipped in water to soften it somewhat.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 (September), Seth Kojo Kweij: Some Things You Can’t Restore. In: Johannes Preuss (ed.): Ananse Stories told in Ghana. In: Bea Lundt (ed.): Ananse und andere Erzählungen aus Afrika: Zur narrativen Kultur Afrikas aus deutscher und afrikanischer Perspektive. Berlin: Lit Verlag, published in 2018, page 45",
          "text": "But Okonoriyaa continued to uproot the plants for the chewing sponge, and whilst she was in the middle of doing that, she suddenly heard a child crying.",
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        "A bunch of twigs (most commonly of Salvadora persica) that were beaten until fibrous used as a traditional product for dental hygiene purposes."
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          "twig",
          "twig"
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          "Salvadora persica#Translingual"
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          "hygiene",
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        "(West African English) A bunch of twigs (most commonly of Salvadora persica) that were beaten until fibrous used as a traditional product for dental hygiene purposes."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "chewing stick"
        },
        {
          "word": "chewstick"
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  "word": "chewing sponge"
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  "etymology_text": "chewing + sponge",
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          "text": "The woman was vigorously scrubbing her teeth with a piece of chewing sponge.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Ebow Daniel, A Tale of Cape Coast, Accra: Woeli Publishing Services, page 26",
          "text": "Her chores began in the morning with taking to Ewuraba, in a saucer, a piece of chewing sponge dipped in water to soften it somewhat.",
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        "(West African English) A bunch of twigs (most commonly of Salvadora persica) that were beaten until fibrous used as a traditional product for dental hygiene purposes."
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