Dictionary

chowchow en · ADJ

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow (“food”). Compare Macanese chau-cháu.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, obsolete, slang) Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed.
   • chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together)

Forms

Deriveds

chowchow chop

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chowchow en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow (“food”). Compare Macanese chau-cháu.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A Chinese preserve.
2. (countable, uncountable) An American relish, containing pickled green tomatoes, cabbage, and often other vegetables.
3. (countable, uncountable) A fruit ketchup.
4. (countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable) Gossip.
5. (countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable) A miscellaneous assortment of anything.
   • The drawer was crammed with a chowchow of bills, most of them yellow and cracking with age, letters still shoved into embossed envelopes which bore illegible handwritten franks instead of postage marks or stamps, and little wads of notes issued by banks long collapsed. 2011, Barbara Hambly, Those Who Hunt the Night:
6. (alt-of, countable, uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Chow Chow (“a type of dog”).
   alt of Chow Chow

Forms

Synonyms

ketchup · India relish · piccalilli · catsup

Translations (1)

fr chow chow (ketchup)

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chowchow en · VERB

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow (“food”). Compare Macanese chau-cháu.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, obsolete, slang) To gossip.
   • […] some ten or twelve fellows were chow chowing and drinking, playing at the Chinese game with their fingers, shouting and yelling like demons. 1861, The London and China Telegraph, page 316:

Forms

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