5 November 2014
chit (1)
[chit]
noun
1. a signed note for money owed for food, drink, etc.
2. any receipt, voucher, or similar document, especially of an informal nature.
3. Chiefly British. a note; short memorandum.
Origin
Hindi
1775-1785; short for chitty < Hindi chiṭṭī
chit (2)
[chit]
noun
1. a child or young person, especially an impudent, pert or self-confident girl or child.
-A young chit of a thing.
Origin
1350-1400; for sense of “the young of an animal”; 1615-25 for current sense; Middle English; perhaps akin to kitten or kid
chit (3)
[chit]
noun, Hinduism.
1. cit. (Pure consciousness)
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Examples from the web for chit
– Using education as a chit in his misguided political bargaining strategy is reprehensible.
– Now, it seems to me that bar talk should be dealt with as chit chat, which it is.
– No chit chat with coworkers when a customer is around.
Today’s aphorism
A party without cake is just a meeting.
– Julia Child
On this day
5 November 1605 – Guy Fawkes Day. Celebrates King James I survived an attempt on his life when Guy Fawkes and others from the Gunpowder Plot placed gunpowder around the House of Lords in a failed attempt to blow up parliament.
5 November 1996 – Bill Clinton secures a second term as U.S. President, with a land-slide victory. Clinton is the first Democrat in 50 years to win consecutive terms of government.