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Word entry · 4 letters

chit

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"Small note"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /t͡ʃɪt/Part of speech nounSorted chitStarts with CEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the bill in a restaurant

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • Madam was a little chit of a woman, not five feet in her highest headdress and shoes, and Mr. Washington a great tall man of six feet two.
  • “These are returns,” I said, “quite fit To me, who nursed you when a chit. For shame, lay by this envious art; Is this to act a sister's part?”
  • […] he seemed to come forward from an era of sexual defiance and fighting alliances and to cast a dismissive eye over a little chit like Nick, who had never fought for anything.

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