chawdron
/ˈt͡ʃɔdɹən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The ſecond kind of Letuce, hath crompled leaues, wrinckled and gathered or drawen together almoſt like the Moquet or Chauden of a Calfe: […]"
- "Hovv fare I? troth, for ſixpence a meale, vvench, as vvel as heart can vviſh, vvith Calves Chaldrons, and Chitterlings, beſides I haue a Punck after ſupper, as good as a roſted Apple."
- "Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron, / For th'Ingredience of our Cawdron."
- "Butchers are vvont to buy calues for to kill and ſell their fleſh, for in all creatures, the fleſh of the young ones are much better then the elder, becauſe they are moyſt and ſoft, and therefore vvil digeſt and concocte more eaſie: […] And principally the Germanes vſe the chavvtherne, the head, and the feete, for the beginning of their meales, and the other parts either roaſted, or baked, and ſometime ſod in broath, and then buttered, ſpiced and ſauced, and eaten vvith Onyons."
- "Fraise: […] A ſtravvberrie; alſo, a ruffe; alſo, a calues chaldern."
- "Chitterling. […] The small entrails of a hog, from their wrinkled appearance. […] [German] kalbs gekröse, a calf's pluck or chaldron; gänse gekröse, a goose's giblets, called chitters in the N[orth] of E[ngland]."
Etymology
From Late Middle English chaudon, chaudoun, chaudron (“sauce made from chopped entrails”), from Old French chaudun (“animal entrails; sauce made from such entrails”) (modern French chaudin (“wrapping of sausages made from pigs’ intestines; Louisiana meat dish cooked in a pig’s stomach”)), from Late Latin caldūmen (“animal entrails”), from Latin caldus (“hot; warm”) + -men (suffix forming nouns, generally describing the means or result of an action). Caldus is a variant of calidus (“hot; warm”), from caleō (“to be hot or warm”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁- (“to be hot”)) + -idus (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘tending to’). The spellings with an r are probably influenced by English chaldron (“cauldron”) (obsolete) and Middle English caudroun (“cauldron”), while the spelling chawdron as a whole was probably popularized by its use in Macbeth (written c. 1606; published 1623) by the English playwright William Shakespeare (c. 1564 – 1616): see the quotation. Doublet of chaudin. cognates * German Kaldaunen (“bowels, guts”) * Greek γαρδούμπα (gardoúmpa, “dish containing goat or lamb offal”) * Lithuanian koldūnai (“stuffed dumpling”) * Middle Low German kaldûne (“bowels, guts”) * Sicilian quarumi (“veal tripe stew”)
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃɔdɹən/
- British English: /ˈt͡ʃɔːdɹən/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.