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chon | chow |

As a noun chon

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As a proper noun chow is

a common chinese surname.

chon

English

Noun

(chon)
    • ----

    chow

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortened from (chow-chow).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
    • I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
  • A Chinese breed of dog; the .
  • * 1914 , (Saki), ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts :
    • ‘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.’
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=March 4, author=Jane Weinberg, title=First Person: Me and Georgia O'Keeffe, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , 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!’
    • Derived terms
    * chow down

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang, South Africa) To eat.

    • Etymology 2

    From Chinese.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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:
    • while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.