chow
pronunciation
How to pronounce chow in British English:
UK [tʃaʊ]
How to pronounce chow in American English:
US [tʃaʊ]
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- Noun:
- informal terms for a meal
- breed of thick-coated medium-sized dogs with fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China
Word Origin
- chow (n.)
- "food," 1856, American English (originally in California), from Chinese pidgin English chow-chow (1795) "food," reduplication of Chinese cha or tsa "mixed." The dog breed of the same name is from 1886, of unknown origin, but some suggest a link to the Chinese tendency to see dogs as edible.
Example
- 1. Your cat or dog chow is more expensive !
- 2. Everyday we chow down on food produced from plants that carry deadly poisons .
- 3. Chow down on antioxidant - and zinc-rich oysters , dark chocolate , and blueberries for a clear complexion .
- 4. The monkey 's daily diet consists of dried chow pellets , with about one-third of the calories coming from fat , similar to a typical american diet , dr. grove said , though the diet also contains adequate protein and nutrients .
- 5. Researchers at the university of alabama recently found that chimpanzees , macaques , mice , rats , dogs , cats , and other species that lived in proximity to humans got fatter than animals that didn 't live in an industrialized environment -- even when their lab chow and exercise was highly controlled .