chow
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Shortened from chow-chow.
[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -aʊ
- Homophones: ciao
[edit] Noun
chow (usually uncountable; plural chows)
- (Australian, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
- (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
- I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
- A Chinese breed of dog; the chow-chow.
- 1914, Saki, ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts:
- ‘I'd try and grapple with him myself, only I've got my chow in my room, you know, and he goes for pigs wherever he finds them.’
- 1988 March 4, Jane Weinberg, “First Person: Me and Georgia O'Keeffe”, Chicago Reader:
- While we were talking, one of the chows, the rusty one, had come over to me and I was absently petting him.
- 1914, Saki, ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts:
[edit] Translations
Food, especially snacks
