noun · rare

chit

chit · chits

росток, пагін

росток

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A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animalA child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.

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/t͡ʃɪt/

» Cut the chit-chat and get to work.

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Meaning

13 senses

A 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
(UK, dated, dialectal)A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
запи́скаzapíska
(UK, dialectal, historical)A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system.
(UK, dialectal)A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.
(UK, dialectal)A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
(China, India, Philippines, UK, dialectal)A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
долгова́я распи́скаdolgovája raspíska
(Philippines, UK, dialectal)A restaurant bill or check
the bill in a restaurant
(UK, US, dialectal, slang)A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.
(UK, dialectal)A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.
(UK, US, dialectal, euphemistic, slang, uncountable)Shit.

Examples

13 sentences

Cut the chit-chat and get to work.
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There's a lot of chit-chat.
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Sami was just making polite chit-chat.
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Bob drew the winning chit at the raffle.
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Quit with the chit-chat and get to work.
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Translations

3 languages

Русский

By meaning 3

a shoot, a sprout:

scrap of paper with a hand-written note:

voucher of small debt:

Origin

From Middle English chitte (“a young animal, cub, whelp”), from Old English *ċytten, *ċiet

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”).

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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