chowder Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes

WordNet

Chow"der noun
Etymology
F. chaudière a kettle, a pot. Cf. Caldron.
Definitions
  1. (Cookery) A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.
  2. A seller of fish. Prov. Eng. Halliwell.
Chow"der transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To make a chowder of.

Webster 1913