I, myself, could show a handful of his chits for meals and drinks in my drawer.
Lisle noticed that he often paid in chits, instead of money.
Night-marching in sleet and wind is not for chits of seventeen.
Do you think my lady has nought to do but attend to the whimsies of chits like you?
Probably not—but that does not console Lieut. —— for the loss of his chits.
They had now grown into a pair of fine young women and were chits no longer.
So she turns her part of the contract over to you two chits of gals; does she?
Thirty-three, wondered how men could leave the society of sensible women to flirt with chits.
No one watched them read the chits, but Talbot, glancing up from his plate, saw a look on Borwick's face.
And as for the chits on the other side—whew, they blow right and left, as the feathers on their hats do.
"note," 1776, short for chitty, from Mahrati (Hindi) chitthi "letter, note," from Sanskrit chitra-s "distinctively marked" (cf. cheetah).
colloquial shortening of citizen, 1640s; contrasted to a countryman or a gentleman, usually with some measure of opprobrium (Johnson defines it as "A pert low townsman; a pragmatical trader").
noun
An impudent and spirited young woman: a saucy chit
[1640s+; origin uncertain]
noun
A bill for food or drink, which one signs or initials instead of paying immediately
[1920s+; In the sense ''note,'' chit is attested from the 1780s; shortening of Anglo-Indian chitty, ''letter, note,'' fr Hindi]
