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chow tah

chow tah is the alternative spelling of chao ta.

Meaning of chao ta

Adjective

chao ta (comparative more chao ta, superlative most chao ta)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial) Burnt and charred (e.g., from overcooking).
    • The 'chao ta' (burnt) portions of the bak kwa indicate that the meat has been exposed to extremely high temperatures.2015 February 18, Andrea Seet, quoting Dr Wong Seng Weng, “How many floors to walk up to burn off that bak kwa? A guide to post-CNY exercise”, in The New Paper, Singapore

Forms of chow tah

comparativemore chow tah
superlativemost chow tah

Questions about chow tah

What is chow tah the alternative spelling of?
Chow tah is the alternative spelling of chao ta.

Words near chow tah in the dictionary

  1. chow lines
  2. chow mein
  3. chow mein bun
  4. chow mein buns
  5. chow ta
  6. chow tah
  7. chow tar
  8. chow time
  9. chow-chow
  10. chow-chows
  11. Chowan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chow tah (page history and authors); chao ta (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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