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chowchow

NOUN
  1. a Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and ginger
  2. chopped pickles in mustard sauce

How To Use chowchow In A Sentence

  • Sometimes spelled “chowchow,” some linked its name to nineteenth-century Chinese railway workers, for whom the term described a condiment of orange peel and ginger in heavy syrup. One Big Table
  • Similarly, Eskimo Jargon has kaukau ‘food’, itself a loanword in Hawaiian, introduced from Chinese Pidgin English chowchow.
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