different between chon vs chow

English

Noun

chon (plural chon)

1. Alternative spelling of jun

Anagrams

• Cohn, HCNO, HOCN

Chuukese

Noun

chon

1. person of

   chon Chuuk

   Chuukese people

Adjective

chon

1. black

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [x?n?]

Noun

chon m sg

1. Lenited form of con.

Japanese

Romanization

chon

1. R?maji transcription of ???
2. R?maji transcription of ???

Middle Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xon/

Noun

chon

1. Lenited form of con.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xon/

Noun

chon

1. Lenited form of con.

Scottish Gaelic

Preposition

chon

1. Alternative form of chun

Spanish

Etymology

Childish apheresis of calzón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??on/, [?t??õn]

Noun

chon m (plural chones)

1. (colloquial, Mexico, euphemistic): underpants, panties (of men or women)

Usage notes

• More commonly used in plural form.

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /t????n/

Etymology 1

Verb

chon

1. (transitive) to sell

Antonyms

• man

Etymology 2

Noun

chon

1. snake

Derived terms

• bolom chon
• chanul pom

References

• “?on(1)”, “?on(2)” in Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophone: ciao

Etymology 1

Shortened from chow-chow, Chinese Pidgin English of unclear origin.

Noun

chow (usually uncountable, plural chows)

1. (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
2. A Chow Chow.
   • 1914, Saki, ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts:

     ‘I'd try and grapple with him myself, only I've got my chow in my room, you know, and he goes for pigs wherever he finds them.’
3. (chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 74, [2]

     These were the creatures Nawnim had been amazed to see about him on the day of his arrival. When he inquired about them, Anna told him they were Japs an' Chows.

   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 11:

     ‘Now look here old man if you should ever bump into an interesting Chow from over the river – one with access, follow me? – just you remember High Haven!’

Derived terms

• chow down

Translations

Verb

chow (third-person singular simple present chows, present participle chowing, simple past and past participle chowed)

1. (slang, South Africa) To eat.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese ? (zh?u).

Noun

chow (plural chows)

1. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.

Etymology 3

Phono-semantic matching of Chinese ? (ch?, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above.

Noun

chow (plural chows)

1. (mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.

Verb

chow (third-person singular simple present chows, present participle chowing, simple past and past participle chowed)

1. (mahjong) To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.

Translations

Coordinate terms

• pung
• kong

Anagrams

• owch