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chawdron

Syllables: chaw·dron/ˈt͡ʃɔːdɹən//ˈt͡ʃɔdɹən/

chawdron noun: the entrails of an animal, especially when used as a food ingredient; offal.

chawdron: the entrails of an animal, especially when used as a food ingredient; offal
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Noun

chawdron (plural chawdrons)

  1. (archaic, historical) The entrails of an animal, especially when used as a food ingredient; offal.
    • The ſecond kind of Letuce, hath crompled leaues, wrinckled and gathered or drawen together almoſt like the Moquet or Chauden of a Calfe: […]1578, Rembert Dodoens, “Of Letuce”, in Henry Lyte, transl., A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: […], London: […] [Henry [i.e., Hendrik van der] Loë for] Gerard Dewes, […], →OCLC, 5th part...
    • Hovv fare I? troth, for ſixpence a meale, vvench, as vvel as heart can vviſh, vvith Calves Chaldrons, and Chitterlings, beſides I haue a Punck after ſupper, as good as a roſted Apple.1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, signature B, verso
  2. (obsolete) A sauce made from chopped animal entrails.
    • Lyfte that ſwanne. Take and dyghte hym as a gooſe but let hym haue a largyour bꝛawne ⁊ loke ye haue chawdꝛon.1508, “And Here Begynneth Keruyng of All Maner of Fowles”, in […] The Boke of Keruynge, London: […] Wynkyn de Worde […], →OCLC, signature B.i., recto
    • [T]heir blamangers, jellies, chavvdres and a number of exquiſit ſauces, and delicate junkets of all ſorts, ſent up and brought to the board: […]1603, Plutarch, “The Second Booke of the Symposiaques”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, 10th question, page 680

Examples of chawdron in a sentence

  • Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron, / For th'Ingredience of our Cawdron.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]...
  • Other sauces were more complicated, such as chawdron sauce, which Gervase Markham in his Complete Housewife calls a galantine.2006, Allison Sim, “Yeomen, Scullions and Children: Living in a Great Household as a Lower Servant”, in Masters and Servants in Tudor...

Forms of chawdron

pluralchawdrons
alternative formchaldron
alternative formchaudron
alternative formchauldron

Origin of chawdron

From Late Middle English chaudon, chaudoun, chaudron (“sauce made from chopped entrails”), from Old French chaudun (“animal entrails; sauce made from such entrails”) (modern French chaudin (“wrapping of sausages made from pigs’ intestines; Louisiana meat dish cooked in a pig’s stomach”)), from Late Latin caldūmen (“animal entrails”), from Latin caldus (“hot; warm”) + -men (suffix forming nouns, generally describing the means or result of an action). Caldus is a variant of calidus (“hot; warm”), from caleō (“to be hot or warm”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁- (“to be hot”)) + -idus (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘tending to’). The spellings with an r are probably influenced by English chaldron (“cauldron”) (obsolete) and Middle English caudroun (“cauldron”), while the spelling chawdron as a whole was probably popularized by its use in Macbeth (written c. 1606; published 1623) by the English playwright William Shakespeare (c. 1564 – 1616): see the quotation. Doublet of chaudin. cognates * German Kaldaunen (“bowels, guts”) * Greek γαρδούμπα (gardoúmpa, “dish containing goat or lamb offal”) * Lithuanian koldūnai (“stuffed dumpling”) * Middle Low German kaldûne...

Questions about chawdron

What does chawdron mean?
Chawdron means the entrails of an animal, especially when used as a food ingredient; offal.
How do you use chawdron in a sentence?
Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron, / For th'Ingredience of our Cawdron.
What part of speech is chawdron?
Chawdron is a noun.
How do you pronounce chawdron?
Chawdron is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɔːdɹən/ (UK).
What is the plural of chawdron?
The plural of chawdron is chawdrons.

Words near chawdron in the dictionary

  1. chawbones
  2. chawbuck
  3. chawbucked
  4. chawbucking
  5. chawbucks
  6. chawdron
  7. chawdrons
  8. chawe
  9. chawed
  10. chawed up
  11. chawer

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