Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Chinese preserve of fruits, fruit peels, and ginger.
- noun A relish consisting of chopped vegetables pickled in mustard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mixed; miscellaneous; broken.
- noun Food of any kind, but especially Chinese food, which is usually broken or cut up in the course of cooking into pieces suitable for being eaten with chop-sticks.
- noun A preserve made in southern China, of odds and ends of orange-peel, ginger, bamboo, pumelo-rind, syrup, etc.
- noun A mixed pickle made with mustard in the East Indies, and imitated elsewhere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun chopped pickles in mustard sauce.
- noun a Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and ginger.
- noun a breed of thick-coated medium-sized dogs with fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in north China.
- noun the last lighter containing the small sundry packages sent off to fill up a ship.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Others claim chow-chow comes from the French chou, or cauliflower, which is often a primary ingredient.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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Carla: fried grouper with collard greens, and chow-chow pico de gallo.
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There are the expected jars of pickled beets, chow-chow, and sauerkraut, right next to the pickled pig snouts, lamb tongues, and ... guinea hearts!
Maria Rodale: Dietrich's Meats and Country Store: A Meat Mecca Maria Rodale 2010
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Richard "Hutch" Hutchinson had many interests, including music and chow-chow dogs.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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A pork chop sandwich with chow-chow—a mustardy relish common in parts of the South—is juicy and sloppy $8.50.
A Southern Shortlist 2012
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"Arf, arf," it exclaimed, its signature pitch identifying it as a chow-chow.
David Macaray: Double Agents David Macaray 2011
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There are the expected jars of pickled beets, chow-chow, and sauerkraut, right next to the pickled pig snouts, lamb tongues, and ... guinea hearts!
Maria Rodale: Dietrich's Meats and Country Store: A Meat Mecca Maria Rodale 2010
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"Arf, arf," it exclaimed, its signature pitch identifying it as a chow-chow.
David Macaray: Double Agents David Macaray 2011
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This is an updated version of one of my favorites: chow-chow.
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Turnip greens or collard greens (or a mix) cooked down with a meaty ham hock and a bit of tasso, ladled over a bowl of crumbled cornbread (I echo the "no sugar") and topped with a dollop of chow-chow.
Collard greens, Facebook and Twitter | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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Old Kentucky nickname for the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo. Also known as phantom bird or spirit bird.
December 11, 2007