chow.
Food, especially snacks.
Meaning & usage
Food, especially snacks.
I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
A Chow Chow.
A Chinese person.
Where this word comes from
Shortened from chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow. Compare Macanese chau-cháu. See also English chow fun, chow mein, etc.
To eat.
Where this word comes from
Shortened from chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow. Compare Macanese chau-cháu. See also English chow fun, chow mein, etc.
A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Chinese 州 (zhōu).
A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
A call for forming such a run using a discarded tile.
Where this word comes from
Phono-semantic matching of Chinese 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above.
To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.
Where this word comes from
Phono-semantic matching of Chinese 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above.
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