chowchow

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A Chinese preserve.
2. (countable, uncountable)An American relish, containing pickled green tomatoes, cabbage, and often other vegetables.
3. (countable, uncountable)A fruit ketchup
4. (countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)Gossip.
5. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative form of Chow Chow (“type of dog”).
6. (countable, uncountable)A miscellaneous assortment of anything.

   “2011, Barbara Hambly, Those Who Hunt the Night The drawer was crammed with a chowchow of bills, most of them yellow and cracking with age, letters still shoved into embossed envelopes which bore illegible handwritten franks instead of postage marks or stamps, and little wads of notes issued by banks long collapsed.”

verb

1. (obsolete, slang)To gossip.

   “[…] some ten or twelve fellows were chow chowing and drinking, playing at the Chinese game with their fingers, shouting and yelling like demons.”

adj

1. (not-comparable, obsolete, slang)Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed.

   “chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together)”