different between chard vs chad

English

Etymology

From French carde, from Latin carduus (“thistle”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t???d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t???d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Noun

chard (countable and uncountable, plural chards)

1. (uncountable, cooking) An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.
2. (cooking) Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat.

Synonyms

• (leafy vegetable): mangold, silverbeet, Swiss chard

Derived terms

• Swiss chard

Translations

Further reading

• chard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• D.Arch., archd., hard c

Middle English

Etymology

Representing colloquial pronunciation. See ch-.

Verb

chard

1. I heard.

English

Etymology 1

Uncertain; possibly from the English slang term chat (“louse”). The word predates the chadless punch, which therefore cannot be its origin, and a derivation from Scots chad (“river gravel”) stated in some dictionaries is now thought to be nothing more than guesswork.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /t?æd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Noun

chad (countable and uncountable, plural chad or chads)

1. (uncountable) Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.
2. (countable) One of these pieces of paper.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

Etymology 2

From ch- +? had, from ich + had.

Contraction

chad

1. (West Country, obsolete) I had

Etymology 3

Noun

chad (plural chads)

1. (slang, chiefly Internet) Alternative spelling of Chad (“alpha-male; sexually promiscuous man”)

References

Middle English

Etymology

See ch-.

Verb

chad

1. I had

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *qaða, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qa?ta (“outsiders, alien people”). Cognate with Laboya ata, Cebuano agta, Tagalog agta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?að/

Noun

chad

1. person

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d/

Noun

chad

1. Aspirate mutation of cad.

Mutation