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Definition of 'chow'English
Etymology 1
Shortened from (chow-chow).
Noun
( en-noun)
(slang|uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
- I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
A Chinese breed of dog; the .
* 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.’
* {{quote-news|year=1988|date=March 4|author=Jane Weinberg|title=First Person: Me and Georgia O'Keeffe|work=Chicago Reader citation
|passage=While we were talking, one of the chows , the rusty one, had come over to me and I was absently petting him. }}
A Chinese person.
* 1977 , , 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!’
Derived terms
* chow down
Verb
( en-verb)
(slang|South Africa) To eat.
Etymology 2
From Chinese.
Verb
( en-verb)
(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.
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