chit

[chit]

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noun

a signed note for money owed for food, drink, etc.
any receipt, voucher, or similar document, especially of an informal nature.
Chiefly British. a note; short memorandum.

Origin of chit

1775–85; short for chitty < Hindi chiṭṭī

chit

[chit]

noun

a child or young person, especially a pert girl.

Origin of chit

1350–1400; for sense of “the young of an animal”; 1615–25 for current sense; Middle English; perhaps akin to kitten or kid¹

chit

[chit]

noun Hinduism.

cit.

cit

or chit

[chit]

noun Hinduism.

pure consciousness.

Compare Sat-cit-ananda.

Origin of cit

From Sanskrit

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Related Words for chit

memo, memorandum, note, draft, voucher, tab, check

Examples from the Web for chit

Contemporary Examples of chit

As for using Pollard as a chit, the question remains: for what?
Just Wait Two Years To Free Pollard
Ali Gharib
April 12, 2013
As the New York primary drew closer, Mitt Romney had a chit in his pocket that he could cash in at the right moment.
New York Congressman Peter King: Romney Never Acted on Endorsement Offer
Howard Kurtz
April 25, 2012
And God help America when our high priestess of chit chat, Oprah, wraps her long-running weep-fest later this year.
Good Politicians Are Bad TV
Michelle Cottle
January 28, 2011

Historical Examples of chit

She liked big beds, the chit; she spread herself out and rolled about.
L'Assommoir
Emile Zola
It staggered you to see this reckless expenditure of material upon a chit of a girl.
Falk
Joseph Conrad
It would look at earth and mammon and that chit of a girl, Miss Popularity.
The Chocolate Soldier
C. T. Studd
When I buy a cigar or drink I give a chit, and that's all there is to it.
East of Suez
Frederic Courtland Penfield
Thirdly, he had a son whom it would be a pity to entrust to a chit of a girl.
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy

British Dictionary definitions for chit

chit

noun

a voucher for a sum of money owed, esp for food or drink
Also called: chitty (ˈtʃɪtɪ) mainly British
1. a note or memorandum
2. a requisition or receipt

Word Origin for chit

C18: from earlier chitty, from Hindi cittha note, from Sanskrit citra brightly-coloured

chit

noun

facetious, or derogatory a pert, impudent, or self-confident girl or childa young chit of a thing

Word Origin for chit

C14 (in the sense: young of an animal, kitten): of obscure origin

CIT

abbreviation for (in New Zealand)

Central Institute of Technology

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Word Origin and History for chit

n.1

"note," 1776, short for chitty, from Mahrati (Hindi) chitthi "letter, note," from Sanskrit chitra-s "distinctively marked" (cf. cheetah).

n.2

"small child," 1620s, originally "young of a beast" (late 14c.); unrelated to chit (n.1); perhaps a playful deformation of kitten, but the "Middle English Dictionary" compares Old High German kizzin "kid."

cit

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").