Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. embarrassed; overcome by emotion.

1843		Hall New Purchase (1916) 412: The Majur was most teetotally discumflisticutted, and near about as good as chaw’d up [DARE].
1936		‘Misc.’ AS XI 368/2: Chawed up [...] Embarrassed; confused; surprised.
1951		PADS XV 69: Chawed up [...] Embarrassed; confused.
c.1960		Wilson Coll. n.p.: Chawed up [...] Defeated or embarrassed.

2. nervous, out of sorts.

1846		T.B. Thorpe Mysteries of the Backwoods 28: Whereupon Cash fell into a chair, as he afterwards observed, ‘chawed-up’.
1999		Observer Mag. 12 Sept. 10: We are all chewed up with the sadness at the loss of a woman who was not even our mother.

3. (also chawed out) defeated, overcome, destroyed.

1843–44		Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1995) 255: Here’s full particulars of the patriotic loco-foco movement yesterday, in which the Whigs was so chawed up.
1855		L. Oliphant Minnesota and the Far West 278: His companions chew the cud – of tobacco – in silence, and regard me [...] as one who has been ‘chawed up some’, and considerably ‘run over’ by the colonel.
1862		W. Cheadle Journal (1931) 31 July 40: Nearly dried by the sun, but feeling very chawed up.
1907		S.E. White Arizona Nights 116: I’d be t-totally chawed up and spit out if I was goin’ to join these minin’ terrapins defacin’ the bosom of nature.
1915		Sun. Times (Perth) 5 Sept. 8: Not likely I was gointer see my best pal chewed up.
1950		PADS XIV 19: Chawed [...] Defeated, beaten. In a literal or figurative sense [DARE].
c.1960		see sense 1.
1964		A. Hine Unsinkable Molly Brown 16: Why, you chawed-out coon cat!

4. suffering from a telling-off.

1921		N&Q 12 Ser. IX 384: Chewed Up (To Be). To be ‘told off,’ reprimanded.
c.1960		Wilson Coll. n.p.: Chawed up [...] severely scolded [...] Chewed up [...] Scolded severely and, usually, unjustly.

5. angry, annoyed.

1942		Z.N. Hurston ‘Story in Harlem Sl.’ in Novels and Stories (1995) 1007: ‘I know you feel chewed,’ Jelly said, in an effort to make it appear that he had had no part in the fiasco.
1956		Vogue 15 Oct. 73: ‘Chewed Up’... by Paul Klee ... is, oddly, reminiscent of the American Southernism, ‘chawed,’ meaning mad [DARE].