different between crowder vs chowder

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?a?d?(?)/

Etymology 1

crowd +? -er

Noun

crowder (plural crowders)

1. One who crowds or pushes.

Etymology 2

From Middle English crowdere; equivalent to crowd +? -er.

Alternative forms

• crowther

Noun

crowder (plural crowders)

1. One who plays on a crwth, a string instrument of Welsh origin; a fiddler.
   • c. 1579, Philip Sidney, The Defense of Poesy

     Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder […]

Derived terms

• Surnames: Crewther, Crowder, Crother, Crowther, MacWhirter, MacWhorter

English

Etymology

Probably borrowed from French chaudière (“pot”), from Late Latin caldaria, from Latin caldarium. Related to English cauldron.

Possibly from older English jowter (“fish monger”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?a?d?/
• Rhymes: -a?d?(?)

Noun

chowder (countable and uncountable, plural chowders)

1. A thick, creamy soup or stew.
2. A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened.
3. A seller of fish.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Derived terms

• chowder beer
• clam chowder

Translations

Verb

chowder (third-person singular simple present chowders, present participle chowdering, simple past and past participle chowdered)

1. (transitive) To make (seafood, etc.) into chowder.

Anagrams

• Cowherd, cowherd