chow
To eatTo eat.
» I chowed down on an ant.
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2 senses(South Africa, slang)To eat.
essen, verschlingen, hinunterschlingen
To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.
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
1 languagesOrigin
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.
Phono-semantic matching of Chinese 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above.
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Forms
chows, chowing, chowed, chowedSynonyms
1 synonymsWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.