CHOWDER

chowder

(noun) a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

chowder (countable and uncountable, plural chowders)

A thick, creamy soup or stew.

A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened.

A seller of fish.

Verb

chowder (third-person singular simple present chowders, present participle chowdering, simple past and past participle chowdered)

(transitive) To make (seafood, etc.) into chowder.

Anagrams

• Cowherd, cowherd

Source: Wiktionary


Chow"der, n. Etym: [F. chaudière a kettle, a pot. Cf. Caldron.]

1. (Cookery)

Definition: A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.

2. A seller of fish. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Chowder beer, a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.

Chow"der, v. t.

Definition: To make a chowder of.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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