chowder

Probably borrowed from French chaudière, from Late Latin caldāria (“cooking-pot”), derived from Latin caldus (“hot”). Related to English cauldron.

Possibly from older English jowter (“fish monger”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaʊdɚ/

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• Rhymes: -aʊdə(ɹ)

chowder (countable and uncountable, plural chowders)

1. A thick, creamy soup or stew.

   fish chowder

2. A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened.
3. Alternative spelling of jowter.

chowder (third-person singular simple present chowders, present participle chowdering, simple past and past participle chowdered)

1. (transitive) To make (seafood, etc.) into chowder.

• Cowherd, cowherd