chowchows

Noun

chowchow (countable and uncountable, plural chowchows)

1. A Chinese preserve.
2. An American relish, containing pickled green tomatoes, cabbage, and often other vegetables.

   Synonyms:

   India relish, piccalilli

3. A fruit ketchup.

   Synonyms:

   catsup, ketchup

4. (obsolete, slang) Gossip.
5. (figuratively, informal) A miscellaneous assortment of anything.
   • The drawer was crammed with a chowchow of bills, most of them yellow and cracking with age, letters still shoved into embossed envelopes which bore illegible handwritten franks instead of postage marks or stamps, and little wads of notes issued by banks long collapsed.2011, Barbara Hambly, Those Who Hunt the Night

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