Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick soup containing fish or shellfish, especially clams, and vegetables, such as potatoes and onions, in a milk or tomato base.
- noun A soup similar to this seafood dish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dish of fish or clams boiled with biscuits or crackers, pork, potatoes, onions, etc., and variously seasoned. It is common among the fishermen on the banks of Newfoundland and in New England.
- noun A picnic party, especially at the sea-shore, at which the main dish is chowder. See def. 1.
- noun A fish-seller. Halliwell.
- To make a chowder of: as, to
chowder fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make a chowder of.
- noun (Cookery) A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.
- noun Prov. Eng. A seller of fish.
- noun a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
thick ,creamy soup orstew . - noun A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I use the term chowder here in the sense of a milky, fishy soup.
Irish Blogs 2010
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Umm that's a pretty fantastic garden for an apartment dweller and the chowder is awesome.
The Porch Garden and a Summer Chowder Lindy 2006
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Yes | No | Report from fishallday wrote 21 weeks 2 days ago chowder is amazing and that looks delicious.
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Perhaps a crab corn chowder is in order or maybe some stuufed shrimp or flounder with that crab/ritz cracker stuffing … Please tell me clearing weather is moving this way …
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This particular chowder is classically simple, but there are lots of possible variations.
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Yes | No | Report from fishallday wrote 21 weeks 2 days ago chowder is amazing and that looks delicious.
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This particular chowder is classically simple, but there are lots of possible variations.
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I got the idea for this chowder from the Herbfarm Cookbook.
The Porch Garden and a Summer Chowder Lindy 2006
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Some variation of this method appears in all the published chowder recipes I've seen, but chowder is a bit of a sacred cow.
Shrimp and Corn Chowder Lindy 2006
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Salmon chowder is interesting, and a bit different too.
Shrimp and Corn Chowder Lindy 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word chowder
'...say it right.'
December 9, 2006
karmicunderpath commented on the word chowder
"New England clam chowder."
"Is that the red or the white?"
August 21, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word chowder
TAWVFCI/OP(?)MPB&CSRU!!!
August 21, 2007
uselessness commented on the word chowder
The Award-Winning Virginia Fighting Cavalier Indoor/Outdoor Precision(?) Marching PEP Band & Chowder Society Revue, Unlimited!!!
August 21, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word chowder
Rats! ;)
August 21, 2007
uselessness commented on the word chowder
Nothing, I says nothing, gets by the uselessness.
August 21, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word chowder
THE uselessness? Like The Donald?
August 21, 2007
uselessness commented on the word chowder
As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. ;-)
August 21, 2007
reesetee commented on the word chowder
Wow. That's pretty scary, The uselessness.
August 22, 2007
uselessness commented on the word chowder
You're fired!
August 22, 2007
reesetee commented on the word chowder
Good! I could use a vacation. ;->
August 22, 2007