chowder
pronunciation
How to pronounce chowder in British English:
UK [ˈtʃaʊdə(r)]
How to pronounce chowder in American English:
US [ˈtʃaʊdɚ]
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- Noun:
- a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes
Word Origin
- chowder
- chowder: [18] Chowder, a North American seafood soup, probably takes its name from the pot in which it was originally cooked – French chaudière ‘stew pot’. This came from late Latin caldāria ‘pot’, a descendant of Latin calidārium ‘hot bath’ (which lies behind English cauldron); this in turn was a derivative of the adjective calidus ‘warm’.=> calorie, cauldron
- chowder (n.)
- 1751, American English, apparently named for the pot it was cooked in: French chaudière "a pot" (12c.), from Late Latin caldaria (see caldron). The word and the practice introduced in Newfoundland by Breton fishermen, and spreading thence to New England. CHOWDER. A favorite dish in New England, made of fish, pork, onions, and biscuit stewed together. Cider and champagne are sometimes added. Pic-nic parties to the sea-shore generally have a dish of chowder, prepared by themselves in some grove near the beach, from fish caught at the same time. [John Russell Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1859] The derogatory chowderhead (1819) is a corruption of cholter-head (16c.), from jolthead, which is of unknown origin.
Example
- 1. He made a clam chowder for dinner .
- 2. The best places to go for the best of regional food - start with clam chowder in boston and finish up with sweet iced tea in the deep south .
- 3. Thus , the chowder soup took on its morbid chinese name , which means " coffin bread . "
- 4. It is toasted to harden it and then filled with seafood chowder .
- 5. Best chowder in the world , mino .