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chit 1

 (chĭt)
n.
1. A statement of an amount owed for food and drink, especially one signed to indicate acceptance of the charge.
2. A short letter; a note.
3. A ticket or token, especially one redeemable for food or drink.
4. Informal An amount of credit considered as earned, especially by favorably impressing one having power or influence: earned vital chits with his party's leadership by making fundraising speeches.
[Obsolete chitty, from Hindi ciṭṭhī, note, letter, probably from Sanskrit *ciṣṭa-, message; akin to Avestan cīš-, to assign, refer.]

chit 2

 (chĭt) Archaic
n.
1. A child.
2. A young woman regarded as immature or insignificant.
[Middle English, young animal.]
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chit

(tʃɪt)
n
1. (Commerce) a voucher for a sum of money owed, esp for food or drink
2. chiefly
a. a note or memorandum
b. a requisition or receipt
[C18: from earlier chitty, from Hindi cittha note, from Sanskrit citra brightly-coloured]

chit

(tʃɪt)
n
facetious or derogatory a pert, impudent, or self-confident girl or child: a young chit of a thing.
[C14 (in the sense: young of an animal, kitten): of obscure origin]
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chit1

(tʃɪt)

n.
1. a signed note for money owed for food, drink, etc.
2. any receipt, voucher, or similar document, esp. of an informal nature.
[1775–85; short for chitty < Hindi chiṭṭī]

chit2

(tʃɪt)

n.
a child or young person, esp. a pert girl.
[1615–25; Middle English; perhaps akin to kitten or kid1]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.chit - a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect; "she was incensed that this chit of a girl should dare to make a fool of her in front of the class"; "she's a saucy chit"
fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman - a young woman; "a young lady of 18"
2.chit - the bill in a restaurant; "he asked the waiter for the check"
tab, check
invoice, bill, account - an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered; "he paid his bill and left"; "send me an account of what I owe"
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Translations
مُذَكِّرَه، رِسالَةٌ قَصيرَه
krátká zprávalístek
kort meddelelseseddel
levélke
skrifuî orîsending, miîi
pažyma
īsa vēstulerakstisks apstiprinājums

chit

1 [tʃɪt] N (= note) → vale m

chit

2 [tʃɪt] N a chit of a girl → una muchachita no muy crecida
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

chit

[ˈtʃɪt] n (= memo, note) → note f (= receipt) → reçu mchit-chat [ˈtʃɪttʃæt] n → bavardage m, papotage m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

chit

1
n → junges Ding; she’s a mere chit of a girl → sie ist ja noch ein halbes Kind

chit

2
n (also chit of paper) → Zettel m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

chit

1 [tʃɪt] n → nota f spese inv

chit

2 [tʃɪt] n (old) a chit of a girl → una ragazzina
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

chit

(tʃit) noun
a brief note. You must hand in a chit stating your expenses before you receive any money.
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Lest the fact of Miss Miggs calling him, on whom she stooped to cast a favourable eye, a boy, should create surprise in any breast, it may be observed that she invariably affected to regard all male bipeds under thirty as mere chits and infants; which phenomenon is not unusual in ladies of Miss Miggs's temper, and is indeed generally found to be the associate of such indomitable and savage virtue.
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There were chits of girls, quite grown up, of fourteen and sixteen, walking with their fellows.
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Half an hour after our arrival, the great dinner-bell was rung, and I came down with my two pupils (they are very thin insignificant little chits of ten and eight years old).
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'Ma says chits and jewels have no business together,' pursued Georgiana, 'and that's the reason why I have no trinkets except this, but I suppose my aunt Hawkinson was of a different opinion, because she left me this, though I used to think she might just as well have buried it, for it's always kept in jewellers' cotton.
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Where the resentment which true love would have dictated against the person defaming me--that person, too, a chit, a child, without talent or education, whom he had been always taught to despise?
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She got high and mighty, and I told her I was old enough to be her grandfather and that I wouldn't take gammon from a chit like her.
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Let Steve take that chit home and show his manners."
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To this chit of a girl, Natasha, who not so long ago was playing with dolls and who was still having lessons.
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"Well, you and your wife and your little chit of a daughter are welcome to him so far as we are concerned, aren't they, Flossie?"
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Poyser; and the hint he had given Arthur about her the other day had no more serious meaning than to prevent him from noticing her so as to rouse the little chit's vanity, and in this way perturb the rustic drama of her life.
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`Miss Jessel indeed--SHE!' Ah, she's `respectable,' the chit! The impression she gave me there yesterday was, I assure you, the very strangest of all; it was quite beyond any of the others.
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Good God!" he burst out, "what am I, to be repulsed so by a mere chit like you?
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