chow
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
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- Rhymes: -aʊ
- Homophones: ciao
Etymology 1 [edit]
Shortened from chow-chow.
Noun [edit]
chow (usually uncountable; plural chows)
- (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:
- (chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 11:
- ‘Now look here old man if you should ever bump into an interesting Chow from over the river – one with access, follow me? – just you remember High Haven!’
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 11:
Translations [edit]
Food, especially snacks
dog breed
Verb [edit]
chow (third-person singular simple present chows, present participle chowing, simple past and past participle chowed)
- (slang, South Africa) To eat.
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Chinese.
Verb [edit]
chow (third-person singular simple present chows, present participle chowing, simple past and past participle chowed)
- (Mahjong) To (use a tile or tiles to) piece together a winning combination of tiles.
- 2007, Eleanor Noss Whitney, A Mah Jong Handbook: How to Play, Score, and Win, page 154:
- […] while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.
- 2007, Eleanor Noss Whitney, A Mah Jong Handbook: How to Play, Score, and Win, page 154:
