chowchowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• chow-chow, chow chow

語源

Borrowed from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow (“food”). Compare Macanese chau-cháu.

名詞

chowchow (countable and uncountable, plural chowchows)

1. A Chinese preserve. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. An American relish, containing pickled green tomatoes, cabbage, and often other vegetables.
3. A fruit ketchup
4. (obsolete, slang, Anglo-Chinese) Gossip.
5. Alternative form of Chow Chow (“type of dog”).
6. A miscellaneous assortment of anything.
   • 2011, Barbara Hambly, Those Who Hunt the Night

     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.

同意語

動詞

chowchow (third-person singular simple present chowchows, present participle chowchowing, simple past and past participle chowchowed)

1. (obsolete, slang, Anglo-Chinese) To gossip.
   • 1861, The London and China Telegraph, page 316:

     […] some ten or twelve fellows were chow chowing and drinking, playing at the Chinese game with their fingers, shouting and yelling like demons.

形容詞

chowchow (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, slang, Anglo-Chinese) Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed.

   chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together)

派生語