Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Scraps or bits of paper, such as the perforated edges of paper for tractor feed printers or the tiny rectangles punched out from data cards.
- n. One of these scraps or bits of paper.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete form of shad. The name in Cornwall, England, of the young of the common sea-bream, Pagellus centrodontus.
- n. A dry twig: same as chat.
- n. Dry, bushy fragments found among food. [Prov. Eng. in both senses, usually in plural.]
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, punched cards, paper tape etc.
- n. countable One of these pieces of paper.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete See shad.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river
- n. a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
- n. a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape
- n. a landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa; was under French control until 1960
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Graham notes that the noun was then construed as plural, on the analogy of chaff, but today’s ballot counters are referring to chads, construing the word chad as singular.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“| Reply sit back with some hot tea and a good video game and let the healing begin chad attack”
“BECK: And I think you had a theory that you called chad buildup, right?”
“” But according to Peter Graham, now university librarian at Syracuse, who served early in his career as a keypunch operator, “We had what we called a chad box underneath the key punch.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“In 2000, it was "chad" -- as in the hanging chads of Florida, which played a central role in the tight race between Al Gore and George W. Bush.”
“I wonder if you think 51 is too old hi my name is chad and I am calling from charlotte”
“Linda Evans [who did quality control for Sequoia for more than seven years] recalls the chad testing of ballots manufactured for the 2000 election.”
The Dan Rather Voting Machine Special, A Recipe for Election Disaster, and Serious Food for Thought
“Mayor's race is hanging by a chad was the previous entry in this blog.”
“Mayor's race is hanging by a chad is the next entry in this blog.”
“And then, what you would do, is you would find the punches went not through the so-called chad, but through the number.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chad’.
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Intriguing places
penge, towcester, ruritania, jaffa, tikal, munster, irkutsk, whitby, ephesus, yap, kerguelen, tashkent and 151 more...
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Common English Words That Are Also Fi...
art, bob, bill, grace, hope, john, heather, pat, amber, jack, dale, glen and 170 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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Algeria
Words about Algeria, etc.
al-jumhuriya al-j..., spain, morocco, mali, niger, algiers, oran, laghouat, constantine, touggourt, ghardaia, ouargla and 103 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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Origin unknown
bamboozle, ballyhoo, banter, bludgeon, chad, cocktail, culvert, curmugeon, dildo, dude, dweeb, dyke and 51 more...
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Inside Out Jokes
So you just came to wordie and are thoroughly confused? Me too. Here's a place to list all of those repeating references along with a link to the original joke. Because wordie's too cool to keep...
knot, specific excrement, klein bottle, madeupical, hilarious misunde..., histrionic, todally, alsome, nought, schadenfreudgeon, mi-vox, chad and 2 more...
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Origin Unknown
Words listed as "origin unknown."
spang, nincompoop, lollapalooza, jive, mosey, mull, lush, dog, swizzle, swizzle stick, wonk, hootchy-kootchy and 5 more...
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Scrabble Countries
Country names which happen to be acceptable for play during a game of Scrabble.
china, japan, zaire, morocco, chile, brazil, chad, bolivia, cyprus, turkey, panama, jordan and 2 more...
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Bookmarks
Formerly "Conversations dontcry and frindley AND whichbe and reesetee AND Prolagus might be missing".
i'mpossible, acoustic cloak, definitely, strippable triangle, emmy, 7457, bleachers, fartbreaker, moran, merch, perry como rocks, dead people and 28 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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Euphemisms
Mostly awful and political.
information campaign, enemy combatant, person of interest, collateral damage, friendly fire, detention centre, children overboard, asylum seeker, health care, national interest, economic management, redeployment and 114 more...
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words of the years
bushlips, mother of all,, not!, information super..., cyber, morph, world-wide web, newt, mom, millennium bug, e-, y2k. and 12 more...
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Pseudorandom encore
A couple of years ago on Wordie, I made the list Pseudorandom words. Let's see how the Wordnik random words compare: no panvocalics, more adverbs, more hyphenated words (or maybe I excluded them th...
appeasable, remigrant, trijunction, strawberry-mark, usurpatory, mannery, episcopally, encrown, boutade, yux, unpunishable, fortifiable and 88 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for chad.
reesetee Besides, my dad doesn't like Chad. Thinks he's a cad. Dec 4, 2009
dontcry He's bad news, that Chad. Dec 4, 2009
reesetee He'd better not. I want no part of Chad. Dec 4, 2009
Prolagus bilby, does Chad participate to your bi-annual meeting with reesetee's father*?
(* Cf. bootlegger) Dec 4, 2009
asativum Just for the record, I do know a Chad who's a perfectly nice guy. But I notice everyone seems to use his last name when referring to him. Maybe it's to avoid confusion -- you know, with Chad Jun 17, 2008
bilby The W's just a hatstand, really. Jun 16, 2008
dontcry Ahhhh. What's the "W." stand for? Jun 16, 2008
bilby Ah. That's Chad's son, Chad W. Bushel-Harvester. Jun 16, 2008
dontcry I thought Chad had thick brown hair, parted too far to one side so it always is falling over one eye. His parents spend too much time at the country club to realize that he is flunking out of his prep-school and selling pot to the neighbors out of his sports car. He always has the collar of his polo shirt turned up at the back and would kick a spotted dog if it followed him around...
Maybe country Chad has an evil twin...Suburbs Chad. Jun 16, 2008
bilby We're all neighbours in the big Wordie family, Asa *glowing* Jun 16, 2008
asativum Yep. That's him. But wait -- how can he live next door to you, too? Or are we neighors? Jun 16, 2008
bilby Chad sounds like a man who lives next door. He wears overalls for fun and speaks with a slight whistle. He was born with a spotted dog following him. His weekly religious observance is to mow the lawn at 9.30am on Sunday. Jun 16, 2008
kewpid It pops up once or twice a month, and its never good news unfortunately :( Jun 16, 2008
pterodactyl I see Chad in the news pretty regularly, and unfortunately it's never good news. They have all those refugees to deal with, and there was that Zoe's Ark problem last year... I really hope that life in Chad is better than the American media depicts. Jun 15, 2008
seanahan When was the last time the country Chad was in the news? Jun 15, 2008
asativum Oh, here and there. Chad has made me think of the country since Grade 7. Just trying to stir things up (and keep them in perspective, perhaps).
I did see most of Recount recently, though. Certainly brought back memories, of a kind. Jun 14, 2008
pterodactyl Civil war? Sort of. Lots of indignant partisanship, certainly.
Where are you from, Asat? Jun 14, 2008
kewpid The wounds were recently ripped open with Recount Jun 14, 2008
asativum I take it the civil war there is still going? Jun 14, 2008
dontcry Same. Jun 14, 2008
whichbe This word still makes me wince a little. Jun 14, 2008