chowder

Probably borrowed from French chaudière (“pot”), from Late Latin caldaria < Latin caldarium; also related to English cauldron). Possibly from older English jowter (“fish monger”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃaʊdɚ/

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• Rhymes: -aʊdə(ɹ)

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?)

• chowder beer
• clam chowder

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

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

• Cowherd, cowherd