Etymology

chin chow

Today it means: grass jelly Full definition →

Hokkien 清草
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The story

  1. Hokkien · borrowed from清草
  2. English todaychin chow

From Hokkien 清草 (chhin-chháu).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.