chow chow

1. 1.

   breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China

   Synonymschow

   Broaderspitz

Questions about chow chow

What does chow chow mean?

chow chow means "breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China".

What is another word for chow chow?

Close synonyms include chow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chow chow a common word?

chow chow is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.