chowchow
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An American relish, containing pickled green tomatoes, cabbage, and often other vegetables.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The drawer was crammed with a chowchow of bills, most of them yellow and cracking with age, letters still shoved into embossed envelopes which bore illegible handwritten franks instead of postage marks or stamps, and little wads of notes issued by banks long collapsed."
- "[…] some ten or twelve fellows were chow chowing and drinking, playing at the Chinese game with their fingers, shouting and yelling like demons."
- "chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together)"
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Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.