chow
Food, especially snacksFood, especially snacks.
» I chowed down on an ant.
Meaning
7 senses(slang, uncountable, usually)Food, especially snacks.
I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
Fressalien
жратва́žratvá, ха́вчикxávčik, харчи́xarčí
(Trinidad and Tobago, uncountable, usually)Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
(uncountable, usually)A Chow Chow.
A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
A call for forming such a run using a discarded tile.
(Australia, archaic, slang, uncountable, usually)A Chinese person.
- breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China
- informal terms for a meal
- the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism
Examples
5 sentencesI chowed down on an ant.
As for me, I don't eat meat, so I ordered veg chow mein.
This chow contains not less than 23 per cent protein and 4.5 per cent fat, and about 57 per cent carbohydrate.
Boris's Chow barks all the time at the attic.
"Hey, Mary! Even in the prison, the chow was better!" "Then go back and eat there."
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
Shortened from chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow. Compare Macanese chau-cháShortened from chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow. Compare Macanese chau-cháu. See also English chow fun, chow mein, etc.
Borrowed from Chinese 州 (zhōu).
Phono-semantic matching of Chinese 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above.
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Forms
plural: chows| Singular | chow |
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uncountable
Synonyms
11 synonyms- breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China:chow chow
- informal terms for a meal:chuckeatsgrub
- the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism:ZhouZhou dynastyChouChou dynastyChow dynasty
Word family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable