chowchow
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chowchow
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Borrowed from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow (“food”). Compare Macanese chau-cháu.
noun chowchows · chow-chow · chow chow
- A Chinese preserve.
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An American relish, containing pickled green tomatoes, cabbage, and often other vegetables.
Similar: India relish, piccalilli
- A fruit ketchup.
- Gossip.
- 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.
- Alternative letter-case form of Chow Chow (“a type of dog”).
verb chowchows · chowchowing · chowchowed · chow-chow · chow chow
- 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.
adjective chow-chow · chow chow
- Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed. chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together)
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noun ketchup
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