chowchow
verbEtymology Borrowed from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow (“food”). Compare Macanese chau-cháu.
chowchow
nounEtymology Borrowed from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow (“food”). Compare Macanese chau-cháu.
1
A Chinese preserve.
2
An American relish, containing pickled green tomatoes, cabbage, and often other vegetables.
3
A fruit ketchup
5
Alternative Alternative form of Chow Chow (“type of dog”).
6
A miscellaneous assortment of anything.
- 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.2011, Barbara Hambly, Those Who Hunt the Night:
- Synonyms
- India relish, piccalilli, catsup, ketchup