Chowed vs Choked - What's the difference?
chowed | choked |
(chow)
(slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
A Chinese breed of dog; the .
* 1914 , (Saki), ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts :
* {{quote-news, year=1988, date=March 4, author=Jane Weinberg, title=First Person: Me and Georgia O'Keeffe, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=While we were talking, one of the chows , the rusty one, had come over to me and I was absently petting him. }}
A Chinese person.
* 1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 11:
*:‘Now look here old man if you should ever bump into an interesting Chow from over the river – one with access , follow me? – just you remember High Haven!’
(Mahjong) To (use a tile or tiles to) piece together a winning combination of tiles.
* 2007 , Eleanor Noss Whitney, A Mah Jong Handbook: How to Play, Score, and Win , page 154:
(choke)
To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way.
To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.
* Shakespeare
To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
* Dryden
(intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) to reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
* Sir Walter Scott
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
* Jonathan Swift
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
(sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
As verbs the difference between chowed and choked
is that chowed is (chow) while choked is (choke).chowed
English
Verb
(head)chow
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from (chow-chow).Noun
(en-noun)- I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
- ‘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.’
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Derived terms
* chow downEtymology 2
From Chinese.Verb
(en verb)- while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.
choked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*choke
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete) * (l) (dialectal)Verb
(chok)- With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
- to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud
- (Addison)
- Oats and darnel choke the rising corn.
- The words choked in his throat.
- I was choked at this word.