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Webster 1913 Edition

Chowder

Chow′der

(chou′dẽr)
,
Noun.
[F.
chaudière
a kettle, a pot. Cf.
Caldron
.]
1.
(Cookery)
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

,
Verb.
T.
To make a chowder of.

Webster 1828 Edition

Chowder

CHOWDER

,
Noun.
In New England, a dish of fish boiled with biscuit, &c. In Spanish, chode is a paste made of mild, eggs, sugar and flour. In the west of England, chowder-beer is a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing with it melasses.

CHOWDER

,
Verb.
T.
To make a chowder.

Definition 2024

chowder

chowder

English

Noun

chowder ‎(countable and uncountable, plural chowders)

  1. A thick, creamy soup or stew.
  2. A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened.
  3. A seller of fish.
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Etymology

Probably from French chaudière ‎(“pot”), from chaud ‎(“hot”) (also related to the Latin caldaria and English cauldron). Possibly from Old English jowter ‎(“fish monger”).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtʃaʊdɚ/
  • Rhymes: -aʊdə(ɹ)

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