chow

n.
Food; victuals.

intr.v., chowed, chow·ing, chows.
To eat: chowed down on the meat and potatoes.

[Possibly from Chinese (Cantonese) tsaāp, food, miscellany. See chop suey.]

noun

Something fit to be eaten: aliment, bread, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, provision (used in plural), sustenance, victual. Slang eats, grub. See ingestion.

verb

To take (food) into the body as nourishment: consume, devour, eat, fare, ingest, partake. Idioms: break bread, havetakea bite. See ingestion.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: informal terms for a meal
  Synonyms: chuck, eats, grub

Meaning #2: breed of thick-coated medium-sized dogs with fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in north China
  Synonym: chow chow

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - chow-chow, [sl] mad, [sl] kineser

idioms:

• chow mein    kinesisk sammenkogt nudelret

Nederlands (Dutch)
eten, soort Chinese hond (chow-chow)

Français (French)
n. - rata, chow-chow

idioms:

• chow down    manger le plat principal
• chow mein    nouilles frites

Deutsch (German)
n. - Chow-Chow, (Hund), (ugs.) Essen

idioms:

• chow down    das Hauptgericht essen
• chow mein    Chow-mein (chin. Gericht)

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (καθομ.) φαγητό, μάσα, (ράτσα σκύλου) τσάου
abbr. - (ράτσα σκύλου) τσάου

idioms:

• chow mein    κινέζικο πιάτο με μανιτάρια, γαρίδες, κρέας, κινέζικα μακαρόνια κλπ.

Italiano (Italian)
cibo

idioms:

• chow mein    chow mein

Português (Portuguese)
n. - comida (f) (gír.)
abbr. - raça (f) de cão chinês

idioms:

• chow mein    iguaria (f) chinesa

Русский (Russian)
чау-чау, жратва

idioms:

• chow mein    китайская лапша с мясом

Español (Spanish)
n. - chow-chow, comida, perro chino

idioms:

• chow down    ingerir la principal comida del día
• chow mein    comida china con tallarines fritos, carne y legumbres

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - käk (sl.), chow-chow (frukt- el grönsaksinläggning)
abbr. - chow-chow (hundras)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
中国种狗, 食物

idioms:

• chow mein    炒面

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 中國種狗, 食物

idioms:

• chow mein    炒麵

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 음식물, 중국인

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 食物, チャウチャウ

idioms:

• chow mein    チャーメン

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) أو أكل, طعام, نوع من الكلاب (اختصار) نوع من الكلاب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אוכל, מזון, כלב סיני‬

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