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English

Etymology

Shortened from citizen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

cit (plural cits)

1. (derogatory, now rare) A citizen; a townsman, city dweller.
   • 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees

     […] the women of quality are frightened to see merchants wives and daughters dressed like themselves: this impudence of the city, they cry, is intolerable; mantua-makers are sent for, and the contrivance of fashions becomes all their study, that they may have always new modes ready to take up, as soon as those saucy cits shall begin to imitate those in being.

   • 1856, Herman Melville, The Piazza

     Not forgotten are the blue noses of the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit, who would build his sole piazza to the north.

   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     “If, when that war was declared, every one had been sure that not only should we fail to conquer the Transvaal, but that IT would conquer US […] how would the cits have felt then?”

Derived terms

• citess, cittess

References

• Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• CTI, ICT, TCI, TIC, tic

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s?t]

Noun

cit m

1. feeling
2. emotion

   Synonym: emoce

Declension

Derived terms

• bezcitný m
• citový

Related terms

• cítit

Further reading

• cit in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• cit in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Gallo

Etymology

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Noun

cit m (plural cits)

1. cider

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??it/, /t??it/

Adjective

cit

1. little, small

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Latin

Verb

cit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of ci?

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?id/

Etymology

Univerbation of cía (“though”) +? bat (“be”, 3rd person plural present subjunctive)

Verb

cit

1. though… (they) are (subjunctive)
   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 207^b11

Mutation

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

cit

1. root of cintayati

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English chitte (“a young animal, cub, whelp”), from Old English *?ytten, *?ietten, *?itten, from Proto-Germanic *kitt?n? (“young animal, fawn, kid”). Cognate with Scots chit (“chit”), Low German kitte (“young animal”), German Kitz (“fawn, kid”). See also kid.

Noun

chit (plural chits)

1. A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
   • “These are returns,” I said, “quite fit

     To me, who nursed you when a chit.

     For shame, lay by this envious art;

     Is this to act a sister's part?”
2. A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *chit, *chitte, from Old English ??þ (“germ, seed, sprout, shoot”), from Proto-Germanic *k?þ? (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *??-, *?ey- (“to divide, part, split open, sprout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch kiede (“sprout”), dialectal German Keid (“sprout”). Doublet of scion.

Noun

chit (plural chits)

1. The embryonic growing bud of a plant

   Synonyms: shoot, sprout, seedling

   the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes
2. (obsolete) An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.

Translations

Verb

chit (third-person singular simple present chits, present participle chitting, simple past and past participle chitted)

1. (intransitive, Britain, dialect) To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.
2. (transitive, Britain, dialect) To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.
3. (transitive, Britain, dialect) To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.

Derived terms

• mini-chitted

Translations

Etymology 3

From chitty, from Hindi ?????? (ci??h?, “letter, note, written message”).

Noun

chit (plural chits)

1. (US and Britain dated) A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
3. (historical) A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system.

   Synonym: scrip

4. (pharmacology) A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.
5. (gaming) A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
   • 2005, The unofficial, updated Third Edition of the Magic Realm Rules, by Richard Hamblen, Teresa Michelsen and Stephen McKnight

     1.4.3 Also on the board, but turned face down at the beginning of the game, are chits representing treasure sites and sounds and warnings of monsters that may arrive on the map. When characters end a turn in the hex, these chits are revealed. As characters move around the board, more and more of these chits will be revealed, letting the players know where monsters and treasures are to be found.

6. (India, China) A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
   • 1901, Falk, by Joseph Conrad

     He just longed to get away from here and try his luck somewhere else, but for the sake of his sister he hung on and on till he ran himself into debt over his ears—I can tell you. I, myself, could show a handful of his chits for meals and drinks in my drawer.
7. (US, slang) A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.

Translations

Etymology 4

Perhaps from specialized technical use of Etymology 2, above, “a bud; an excressence” (Hunter 1882).

Noun

chit (plural chits)

1. A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.

Translations

Etymology 5

Euphemistic variation of shit.

Noun

chit (uncountable)

1. (US, slang, euphemistic) Shit.

Interjection

chit

1. (US, slang, euphemistic) Shit.

References

• chit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “chit”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Hunter, Robert (1882) The Encyclopædic Dictionary: A New, and Original Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language with a Full Account of Their Origin, Meaning, Pronunciation, and Use?^[5], Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Company

Anagrams

• itch, tich

Min Nan

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Pnar-Khasi-Lyngngam *?it (“warm”). Cognate with Khasi shit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??it/

Adjective

chit

1. hot

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Greek ????? (kítos), partly through the intermediate of Slavic *kit? (cf. Old Church Slavonic ???? (kit?)). Used around the 16th century.

Noun

chit m (plural chi?i)

1. (obsolete) whale, cetacean

Synonyms

• balen?

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French quitte, itself from Latin quietus (and therefore a doublet of the inherited încet). The variant cfit is from German quitt.

Alternative forms

• cfit

Adjective

chit

1. (familiar, used in expressions) free; in peace; having paid ones debt; even

Usage notes

Used as part of colloquial expressions like "a fi chit", meaning "to not owe anyone anything; not indebted to", or "chit c?", meaning "even so, regardless".

Etymology 3

Borrowed from German Kitt.

Noun

chit n (uncountable)

1. putty

See also

• past?