chit
A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animalA child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
» Cut the chit-chat and get to work.
Hört auf zu quatschen und geht an die Arbeit!
Значення
значень: 13A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.
The embryonic growing bud of a plant.
Near-synonyms: shoot, sprout, seedling
the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes
росто́кrostók
(Британія, застаріле, діалектне)A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
запи́скаzapíska
(Британія, діалектне, історичне)A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system.
(Британія, діалектне)A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.
(Британія, діалектне)A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
(China, Індія, Philippines, Британія, діалектне)A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
долгова́я распи́скаdolgovája raspíska
(Philippines, Британія, діалектне)A restaurant bill or check
the bill in a restaurant
(Британія, США, діалектне, сленг)A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.
(Британія, діалектне)A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.
(Британія, США, діалектне, евфемізм, сленг, незлічуване)Shit.
Приклади
речень: 13Cut the chit-chat and get to work.
deHört auf zu quatschen und geht an die Arbeit! — Yorwba
There's a lot of chit-chat.
Sami was just making polite chit-chat.
Bob drew the winning chit at the raffle.
Quit with the chit-chat and get to work.
Переклади
мов: 3За значеннями 3
Походження
From Middle English chitte (“a young animal, cub, whelp”), from Old English *ċytten, *ċietFrom 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”).
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”).
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).
Euphemistic variation of shit.
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