chow
noun
- food
- animal food
verb
- to eat
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaʊ/
name
Etymology: From Cantonese 周 (zau¹).
- A surname from Cantonese.
- Alternative form of Zhou (“dynasty, realm, and era”).
noun
Etymology: From Cantonese 周 (zau¹).
- A Chow Chow (Chinese breed of dog).
“Colin was a Chow; an interesting Chinese breed that looks a bit like a Pomeranian on steroids[.]”
verb
Etymology: Phono-semantic matching of Chinese 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above.
- 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.”