| 词汇 | chow |
| 词源 | chow. Ch’ao, the Mandarin Chinese for “to fry or cook,” prob- ably gives us the word chow, an Americanism first recorded in the 1850s in California, where there were many Chinese labor- ers and cooks working on the railroads. See chow chow. |
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