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"word": "chow gun"
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"word": "chow hall"
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"word": "chowhound"
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"word": "chowline"
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"word": "chowtime"
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"word": "midnight chow"
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"text": "I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.",
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"ref": "1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, page 93",
"text": "Donlon says, \"Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow. Now all we need is the Bob Hope show.\"",
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"Food, especially snacks."
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"(slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks."
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"Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow."
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"(Trinidad and Tobago) Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow."
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"ref": "1914, Saki, ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts",
"text": "‘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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"ref": "1988 March 4, Jane Weinberg, “First Person: Me and Georgia O'Keeffe”, in Chicago Reader",
"text": "While we were talking, one of the chows, the rusty one, had come over to me and I was absently petting him.",
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"A Chow Chow."
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{
"ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 74",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 11",
"text": "‘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!’",
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"A Chinese person."
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"(chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person."
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"word": "食物"
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"feminine"
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"word": "bašta"
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"neuter"
],
"word": "žrádlo"
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"masculine"
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"word": "gáblík"
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"code": "nl",
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"neuter"
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"word": "eten"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"tags": [
"informal"
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"word": "sapuska"
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"code": "fi",
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"tags": [
"slang"
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"word": "safka"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"word": "muona"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"word": "ruoka"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bouffe"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"informal",
"plural"
],
"word": "Fressalien"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "kaja"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"word": "foraggio"
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"alt": "くいもの",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kuimono",
"tags": [
"informal"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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"informal"
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"word": "めし"
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"slang"
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"word": "жратва́"
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"word": "харчи́"
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"word": "клопа"
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"lang": "Vietnamese",
"word": "thức ăn"
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"word": "chow"
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"(slang, South Africa) To eat."
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to eat",
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"roman": "kuu",
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"text": "[…] while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.",
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[
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.