chowder

[ chou-der ]

/ ˈtʃaʊ dər /

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noun

a thick soup or stew made of clams, fish, or vegetables, with potatoes, onions, and other ingredients and seasonings.

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Origin of chowder

1735–45, Americanism; < French chaudière pot, kettle < Late Latin caldāria cauldron

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I was about to play touch football with John-John and I could almost smell the chowder.
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"I don't call this picnicking," Edith declared, after her first taste of chowder.
The Bachelors|William Dana Orcutt
I called to you and said not to salt the chowder because I saw you seasoning everything you could find!
Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp|Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Well, I got my clams; now I'll steer this horse into port and come back and get to work on that chowder.
Fair Harbor|Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Then he brought the chowder in, in a big porcelain tureen which was shaped like a goose.
The Trumpeter Swan|Temple Bailey
Beef tea answers as well; a bowl of chowder quite as well as either.
Methods of Authors|Hugo Erichsen

British Dictionary definitions for chowder

chowder

/ (ˈtʃaʊdə) /

noun

a thick soup or stew containing clams or fish

Word Origin for chowder

C18: from French chaudière kettle, from Late Latin caldāria; see cauldron

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Word Origin and History for chowder

chowder

1751, American English, apparently named for the pot it was cooked in: French chaudière "a pot" (12c.), from Late Latin caldaria (see caldron). The word and the practice introduced in Newfoundland by Breton fishermen, and spreading thence to New England.

CHOWDER. A favorite dish in New England, made of fish, pork, onions, and biscuit stewed together. Cider and champagne are sometimes added. Pic-nic parties to the sea-shore generally have a dish of chowder, prepared by themselves in some grove near the beach, from fish caught at the same time. [John Russell Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1859]

The derogatory chowderhead (1819) is a corruption of cholter-head (16c.), from jolthead, of unknown origin.

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