different between steakhouse vs chophouse

English

steak +? house

steakhouse (plural steakhouses)

chop +? house. For Chinese customs sense, see chop (“quality”).

chophouse (plural chophouses)

(now chiefly historical) An inexpensive restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse.
- 1763, James Boswell, in Gordon Turnbull (ed.), London Journal 1762–1763, Penguin 2014, p. 231:
  Temple & his Brother & I dined in their chambers where we had dinner brought thinking it a more genteel & agreable way than in a Chophouse.
(Nigeria) Any restaurant.
A custom house in China where transit duties are levied.
- 1883, Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Life, Arts, Religion, &c., of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants
  the South Chop-house on the southern shore of the river bears S.S.W.

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