chow-chow

chow-chow (countable and uncountable, plural chow-chows)

1. (South Asia) A chayote.
2. Alternative form of chowchow.

Possibly a reduplication of either Cantonese 炒 (caau²) or Taishanese 炒 (cau²) or etc. Compare Macanese chau-cháu. See also English chow fun, chow mein, etc.

chow-chow

1. food

chow-chow

1. to eat

• Anderson, Æneas (1795) A Narrative of the British Embassy to China, Basil: J.J. Tourneisen: [Appendix] "Glossary of Chinese Words": Chinese: chow-chow. English: Victuals or meat.
• Gow, W. S. P. (1924) Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, page 104: “Chow-chow: food, to eat. “My no have catchee chow-chow.””

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chow-chow m (plural chow-chows)

1. Chow Chow (“dog”)
2. alternative form of chow chow (“ketchup”)

• “chow-chow”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• czau-czau

Unadapted borrowing from English Chow Chow.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʂaw ˈt͡ʂaw/

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• Syllabification: chow-‧chow

chow-chow m animal (indeclinable)

1. Chow Chow

• chow-chow in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• chow-chow in Polish dictionaries at PWN