chow

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /t͡ʃaʊ/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Food, especially snacks. slang,uncountable,usually
    — I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
  2. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
  3. A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
  4. Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow. Trinidad-and-Tobago,uncountable,usually
  5. A call for forming such a run using a discarded tile.
  6. A Chow Chow. uncountable,usually
    — ‘I'd try and grapple with him myself, only I've got my chow in my room, you know, and he goes for pigs wherever he finds them.’
  7. A Chinese person. Australia,archaic,slang,uncountable,usually
    — These were the creatures Nawnim had been amazed to see about him on the day of his arrival. When he inquired about them, Anna told him they were Japs an' Chows.
动词 v.
  1. To eat. South-Africa,slang
  2. To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.
    — […] while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.

词形变化

chows plural chows present,singular,third-person chowing participle,present chowed participle,past chowed past chows plural chows plural chows present,singular,third-person chowing participle,present chowed participle,past chowed past

词汇关系

衍生词
bunny chow chow call chow down chow gun chow hall chowhound chowline chowtime midnight chow
并列词
kong pung

词源

词源 1
Shortened from chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow. Compare Macanese chau-cháu. See also English chow fun, chow mein, etc.
词源 2
Borrowed from Chinese 州 (zhōu).
词源 3
Phono-semantic matching of Chinese 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above.
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