different between charade vs chore

English

Etymology

From French charade, charrade (“prattle, idle conversation; a kind of riddle”), probably from Occitan charrada (“conversation; chatter”), from charrar (“to chat; to chatter”) + -ada. As a round of the game, originally a clipping of acting charade but now usually understood and formed as a back-formation from charades.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sh?räd?, sh?r?d?, IPA^(key): /??????d/, /????e?d/
• (General American) enPR: sh?r?d?, IPA^(key): /????e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

charade (plural charades)

1. (literature, archaic) A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.
   • 1878, "Charade" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, p. 398:

     CHARADE, a trifling species of composition, or quasi-literary form of amusement, which may perhaps be best defined as a punning enigma propounded in a series of descriptions. A word is taken of two or more syllables, each forming a distinct word; each of these is described in verse or prose, as aptly and enigmatically as possible; and the same process is applied to the whole word. The neater and briefer the descriptive parts of the problem, the better the charade will be. In selecting words for charades, special attention should be paid to the absolute quality of the syllables composing them, inaccuracy in trifles of this sort depriving them of what little claim to merit they may possess. The brilliant rhythmic trifles of W. Mackworth Praed are well known. Of representative prose charades, the following specimens are perhaps as good as could be selected:—“My first, with the most rooted antipathy to a Frenchman, prides himself, whenever they meet, upon sticking close to his jacket; my second has many virtues, nor is its least that it gives its name to my first; my whole may I never catch!” “My first is company; my second shuns company; my third collects company; and my whole amuses company.” The solutions are Tar-tar and Co-nun-drum.

2. (uncommon) A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.

   Synonyms: acted charade, (obsolete) dumb charade

   • 1911, "Charade" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., Vol. V, p. 856:

     ...The most popular form of this amusement is the acted charade, in which the meaning of the different syllables is acted out on the stage, the audience being left to guess each syllable and thus, combining the meaning of all the syllables, the whole word. A brilliant example of the acted charade is described in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.

3. (obsolete) A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting.
4. A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use.

   Synonyms: farce, sham; see also Thesaurus:fake

Translations

Verb

charade (third-person singular simple present charades, present participle charading, simple past and past participle charaded)

1. To act out a charade (of); to gesture; to pretend.

Further reading

• charade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• charade in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• charade at OneLook Dictionary Search
• charades on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• charade (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

French

Etymology

Probably from Occitan charrada, from charrar (“to chat”). Compare Italian ciarlare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?ad/

Noun

charade f (plural charades)

1. charade (kind of riddle)
2. (figuratively) something bizarre or hard to understand

3. (Louisiana, Cajun French) chat, conversation

Further reading

• “charade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

From earlier char, from Middle English charr, charre, cherre (“odd job, turn, occasion, business”), from Old English ?err, ?ierr (“a turn”), from ?ierran (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijan? (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”).

Cognate with Dutch keer (“time; turn; occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn; bend; wind; back-flip; u-turn”). Also related to Saterland Frisian kiere, käire (“to turn”), Old Saxon k?rian, Old High German ch?ran (“to turn”) (German kehren (“to turn”), Dutch keren (“to turn”)). See also char.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA^(key): /t???/
• (General American) enPR: chôr, IPA^(key): /t???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA^(key): /t?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /t?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

chore (plural chores)

1. A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.

Derived terms

• choreful
• choreless
• chorelike
• choresome
• chore wheel

Translations

Verb

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

1. (US, dated) To do chores.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “chore”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Etymology 2

Possibly derived from Romani ?or (“thief”), see also Geordie word chor.

Alternative forms

• chor (Geordie)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA^(key): /t???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA^(key): /t?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /t?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

2. (Britain, informal) To steal.

Synonyms

• steal (standard English)
• thieve (standard English)
• twoc (Geordie)

Etymology 3

Noun

chore (plural chores)

1. (obsolete) A choir or chorus.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood

     On every wall, and sung where e'er I walk. I number these, as being of the chore

Anagrams

• Roche, ocher, ochre, roche

Latin

Noun

chore

1. vocative singular of chorus

Lower Sorbian

Adjective

chore

1. Superseded spelling of chóre.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?.r?/

Adjective

chore

1. inflection of chory:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Portuguese

Verb

chore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of chorar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of chorar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of chorar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of chorar