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n. Any of a breed of heavyset dog originating in China, having a long, dense, reddish-brown or black coat and a blue-black tongue. Also called chow chow.

n. Food; victuals.

verb-intransitive. To eat: chowed down on the meat and potatoes.

n. Food, especially snacks.

n. A Chinese breed of dog; the chow-chow.

n. A Chinese person.

v. To eat.

v. To (use a tile or tiles to) piece together a winning combination of tiles.

n. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district; -- often part of the name of a city, as in Foochow.

n. a breed of thick-coated medium-sized dogs with fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; -- same as chowchow{3}, n..

To chew.

n. The jowl: used only in the phrase “cheek for chow” (that is, cheek by jowl).

To grumble.

n. A word forming part of the names of many places in China, indicating either a prefecture or district of the second rank or the chief city of such a district: thus, Ning-hai-chow may mean either the district of Ning-hai or the city of Ning-hai. Sometimes spelled chao, chau, and choo.

n. A unit of weight in Bombay, used for gold and silver, and equal to three tenths of a troy grain.

n. A unit of the nature of the square of a mass, used in the East Indies in the valuation of pearls. A Madras chow is 48 square grains troy, a Bombay chow 15.7 square grains.

n. A Chinaman. [Colloq., Australia.]

n. informal terms for a meal

n. breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China

n. the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism

"The anxiety of constantly toadying to their social superiors seems to curb their appetite, researchers suspect, at least when their regular high-fiber, low-fat chow is on the menu."

chowed    chowing    chows   

fare    Spitz    dynasty   

chowchow{3}   

Bilbao    Bow    Chao    Dow    Frau    Howe    Lao    Liao    Macao    Macau   

Meng    better-than-average    basset    tapeworm    bist    mein    nonsense    sagt    wohl    meatloaf