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Meaning 1
Shit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, US, dialectal, euphemistic, slang
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Standard Lemma guide
chit
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/t͡ʃɪt/
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CMU ARPABET: CH IH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
The embryonic growing bud of a plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonyms: shoot, sprout, seedling
- the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: shoot, sprout, seedling
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noun
Meaning 5
An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 6
A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dated, dialectal
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noun
Meaning 7
A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, historical
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Synonyms: chitty, scrip, tommy
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noun
Meaning 8
A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
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noun
Meaning 9
A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
Topics: games, gaming
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noun
Meaning 10
A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: China, India, Philippines, UK, dialectal
Examples
- 1901, Falk, by Joseph Conrad He just longed to get away from here and try his luck somewhere else, but for the sake of his sister he hung on and on till he ran himself into debt over his ears—I can tell you. I, myself, could show a handful of his chits for meals and drinks in my drawer.
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noun
Meaning 11
A restaurant bill or check
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines, UK, dialectal
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noun
Meaning 12
A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, US, dialectal, slang
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noun
Meaning 13
A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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noun
Meaning 14
Shit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, US, dialectal, euphemistic, slang, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 15
To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 16
To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, transitive
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verb
Meaning 17
To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, transitive
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noun
Meaning 18
the bill in a restaurant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he asked the waiter for the check
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Synonyms: check, tab
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bill, account, invoice
noun
Meaning 19
a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she was incensed that this chit of a girl should dare to make a fool of her in front of the class
- she's a saucy chit
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Broader terms: girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille
History
Etymology
Euphemistic variation of shit.
From Middle English chitte (“a young animal, cub, whelp”), from Old English *ċytten, *ċietten, *ċitten, from Proto-West Germanic *kittīn, from Proto-Germanic *kittīną (“young animal, fawn, kid”). Cognate with Scots chit (“chit”), Low German kitte (“young animal”), German Kitz (“fawn, kid”). See also kid.
From Middle English *chit, *chitte, from Old English ċīþ (“germ, seed, sprout, shoot”), from Proto-Germanic *kīþą (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵī-, *ǵey(H)- (“to divide, part, split open, sprout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch kiede (“sprout”), dialectal German Keid (“sprout”). Doublet of chive (etymology 2) and scion.
From chitty, from Hindi चिट्ठी (ciṭṭhī, “letter, note, written message”). Doublet of cure.
Perhaps from specialized technical use of Etymology 2, above, “a bud; an excrescence” (Hunter 1882).
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Russian: росто́к (rostók) — a shoot, a sprout
- Bulgarian: бележка (beležka) — scrap of paper with a hand-written note
- Dutch: briefje — scrap of paper with a hand-written note
- Gujarati: ચિઠ્ઠી (ciṭhṭhī) — scrap of paper with a hand-written note
- Polish: kartka — scrap of paper with a hand-written note
- Russian: запи́ска (zapíska) — scrap of paper with a hand-written note
- Telugu: చీటీ (cīṭī) — scrap of paper with a hand-written note
- Ottoman Turkish: تذكره (tezkere) — scrap of paper with a hand-written note
- Ottoman Turkish: پوصوله (pusula) — scrap of paper with a hand-written note
- Bulgarian: разписка (razpiska) — voucher of small debt
- Russian: долгова́я распи́ска (dolgovája raspíska) — voucher of small debt
- French: départoir — cleaving tool
- French: piquer — to initiate sprouting (of tubers)
- Russian: прора́щивать клу́бни (proráščivatʹ klúbni) — to initiate sprouting (of tubers)