chowhound

[chou-hound]

noun

Slang.

1. a person who eats food in large quantities or with great gusto; glutton.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chowhound¹

First recorded in 1940–45; chow ¹ + hound ¹

Example Sentences

A self-identified “chowhound,” White started with food-focused groups like Seattle True Foodies and ended up joining about five Meetup groups.

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Before Lhasa Fresh Food, which opened last year, there was Lhasa Fast Food, one of the worst-kept chowhound secrets in Queens, often described as being “in the back of a cell-phone store in Jackson Heights.”

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In the evenings, Nakayama turned the tiny storefront into the San Gabriel Valley’s most unlikely hot ticket—a “secret Japanese chef’s table,” Chowhound wrote—cooking eight-course meals for just a handful of customers a night.

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At Chowhound, the writer Pamela Vachon was more emphatic: “Entertaining at home for Valentine’s Day has become synonymous with actual love. Actual love. You know, the kind that doesn’t require reservations, overblown expectations, underwhelming menus, and the casual eye-rolling of disgruntled restaurant staff.”

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While Food52 is now a leading player in a very crowded food website field that also includes the likes of Serious Eats, Cookstr, and Chowhound, a decade ago it was a more novel concept.

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