In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CHOW
chow, chow chow
(noun) breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China
chow, chuck, eats, grub
(noun) informal terms for a meal
Zhou, Zhou dynasty, Chou, Chou dynasty, Chow, Chow dynasty
(noun) the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Chow
A surname.
(obsolete) Alternative form of Zhou (“dynasty, realm, and era”)
Anagrams
• owch
Etymology 1
Noun
chow (usually uncountable, plural chows)
(slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
A Chow Chow.
(chiefly Australian, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
Verb
chow (third-person singular simple present chows, present participle chowing, simple past and past participle chowed)
(slang, South Africa) To eat.
Etymology 2
Noun
chow (plural chows)
A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
Etymology 3
Noun
chow (plural chows)
(mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
Verb
chow (third-person singular simple present chows, present participle chowing, simple past and past participle chowed)
(mahjong) To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.
Coordinate terms
• pung
• kong
Anagrams
• owch
Source: Wiktionary
Chow, n. [Chin chou.]
Definition: A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district; -- often part of the name of a city, as in Foochow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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