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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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