different between chor vs chow

English

Etymology

See chore (“steal”).

Pronunciation

• Homophone: chore

Verb

chor (third-person singular simple present chors, present participle chorrin, simple past and past participle chorred)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative form of chore (“to steal”).

Anagrams

• OCHR, Roch

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese *chor, from Latin fl?rem, accusative of fl?s, from Proto-Italic *fl?s, from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“flower, blossom”), from *b?el- (“to bloom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??o?/

Noun

chor f (plural chores)

1. (literary) Alternative form of flor

Related terms

• chorima
• chorir

References

• “chor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “chor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x???/

Noun

chor

1. Lenited form of cor.

Verb

chor

1. past analytic of cor

Kalenjin

Verb

chor

1. to steal

Derived terms

• chorin
• chorindet

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From Hindi ??? (cor).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?o?/

Noun

chor

1. thief; robber; fraudster

• Synonym: voler

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xor/

Noun

chor

1. Lenited form of cor.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese *chor, from Latin fl?rem, accusative of fl?s, from Proto-Italic *fl?s, from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“flower, blossom”), from *b?el- (“to bloom”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /??o?/
• Hyphenation: chor

Noun

chor f (plural chores)

1. (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of flor

Derived terms

• chorume

Romani

Noun

chor m (plural chora)

1. Alternative form of ?or.

Spanish

Etymology

From English short.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??o?/, [?t??o?]

Noun

chor m (plural chores or chors)

1. hot pants (pantalón corto)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r/

Noun

chor

1. Aspirate mutation of cor.

Mutation

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