1. chowder - Noun
2. chowder - Verb
A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.
A seller of fish.
To make a chowder of.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMy favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead. Ina Garten
You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home. Jacques Pepin
There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder. New England Proverb
January 21 is the National New England Clam Chowder Day. citation citation File:Clam juice being used in preparation of clam chowder. Source: Internet
In Connecticut clam chowder milk is used instead of cream. Source: Internet
Other usage which attests to its use in England in the middle of 18th century is in a novel by Tobias Smollett in which one of the characters states, "My head sings and simmers like a pot of chowder". Source: Internet