Chowchow

Quick meaning: Chowchow is a noun meaning A Chinese preserve.

Meaning

A Chinese preserve.

More Meanings

1. An American relish, containing pickled green tomatoes, cabbage, and often other vegetables.
2. A fruit ketchup
3. A miscellaneous assortment of anything.
4. Alternative form of Chow Chow (“type of dog”).
5. (obsolete, slang, Anglo-Chinese) Gossip.
6. (obsolete, slang, Anglo-Chinese) To gossip.
7. (obsolete, slang, Anglo-Chinese) Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed.

Example Sentences

chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together)

[…] some ten or twelve fellows were chow chowing and drinking, playing at the Chinese game with their fingers, shouting and yelling like demons.

2011, Barbara Hambly, Those Who Hunt the Night 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.

Word Forms

• chowchows
• chow-chow
• chow chow
• chowchowing
• chowchowed

Synonyms for chowchow

Depending on context, synonyms include piccalilli, catsup, ketchup.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chow-chow, chow, chowmeinery, chowder, chink, chaomian.

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