✅ Chew means to crush or grind with the teeth. More widely, it can refer to damaging something as if with teeth (The meat was hard to chew; The vacuum cleaner chewed up the wires).

✅ Nibble means to chew in small bites, especially over a longer period of time than might be expected based on the amount of food (I nibbled on a slice of pizza all evening).

✅ Chew and nibble both refer to ways of eating something, and nibble and chew can both refer to biting and grinding something without eating it (The dog chewed my slippers, so we bought him a toy he could nibble on instead).

Nibble on these synonyms for a while!

✅ Sweetheart and honey can both be terms of endearment, and can both refer to a romantic partner (My sweetheart and I are going to go ring shopping tomorrow; Next time I’m going to bring my honey).

✅ Sweetheart is also more generally a nice and friendly person (Be a sweetheart, and close the door for me).

✅ Both honey and sweetheart might also be used towards strangers and can sound patronizing in this context, especially when used by a man towards a woman.

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✅ A friend is a person, generally not related to you, that you feel connected to by a sense of affection (I went to dinner with my friend).

✅ A crony is a friend or pal, especially one of a group (She’s hanging out with a crony from school).

✅ Friend is a more positive word, whereas crony can have negative connotations.

✅ Crony can refer to an accomplice, and can also suggest someone whom a person in power has promoted to a certain position because of their friendship, rather than because of their qualifications (The mayor and his cronies were arrested yesterday).

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