chit

[ chit ]

/ tʃɪt /

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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.

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Origin of chit

1775–85; short for chitty < Hindi chiṭṭī

chit

[ chit ]

/ tʃɪt /

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 ]

/ tʃɪt /

noun Hinduism.

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cit

or chit

[ chit ]

/ tʃɪt /

noun Hinduism.

pure consciousness.

Compare Sat-cit-ananda.

Origin of cit

From Sanskrit

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Examples from the Web for 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|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
If I got three meals in two days I considered myself jolly lucky, and he made me sign a chit for ten dollars every week.
Lord Jim|Joseph Conrad

I wouldn't let a chit like that order what a household of grown people should do and make them bow down to her.
A Little Girl in Old Salem|Amanda Minnie Douglas
Look at that little Morris chit with her cheek plastered up to Johnnie Rawlins'!
Quin|Alice Hegan Rice
The chit and her young officer felt unequal to remaining outside, against the tidal wave of the returned motorists.
It Never Can Happen Again|William De Morgan
Allison ordered Tommy's drink and watched the corporal mark it up in his chit book.
A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F.|Rutherford G. Montgomery

British Dictionary definitions for chit

chit

/ (tʃɪt) /

noun

a voucher for a sum of money owed, esp for food or drink

Also called: chitty (ˈtʃɪtɪ) mainly British

a note or memorandum
a requisition or receipt

Word Origin for chit

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

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

chit

n.1

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

chit

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").

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chit

noun Hinduism.

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or chit

noun Hinduism.

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abbreviation for (in New Zealand)

chit

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