chit

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But this chit was all but slender; not skinny, but prettily rounded out, and soft like.

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  1. noun A statement of an amount owed for food and drink; a check.
  2. noun A short letter; a note.
  3. noun A Brownie point: earned vital chits with his party by making fundraising speeches.
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  • Well, perhaps she had, at that, for the chit was but a sallow little thing! —  Karen Harbaugh - [Cupid -1] - Cupid's Mistake
  • He was briefly tempted, for the chit was a pretty little thing. —  Mary Jo Putney - The Rake.htm
  • Silly and vain as the chit was, she did not deserve that Judith worked diligently with her needle all morning, guessing that she might be kept busy all afternoon with preparations for the ball. —  SLIGHTLY WICKED - THE BEDWYN SERIES BOOK 2 - MARY BALOGH
  • The little chit was all the rage, his uncle had said. —  Mary Balogh - An Unacceptable Offer
  • Jackie and Tess would have tea with Molly Edelman, all very civilized, make polite chit-chat while Jackie observed her daughter. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 03] - Butchers Hill
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  1. Obsolete chitty, from Hindi ciṭṭhī, note, letter, from Sanskrit *citrikā, *citritā, note.
  2. Middle English, young animal.

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  1. from Middle English *chit or *chitte (not found in the sense of ‘shoot’ or ‘sprout’), from Anglo-Saxon cīth (= Old Saxon kīdh = Old High German *chīdi, *kīdi, Middle High German kīde, G. dial, keid), a shoot, sprout, sprig, germ, seed; from Teutonic✓ *kī, sprout, germinate: see chine, and cf. chit.
  2. from chit, n. Cf. chick, v.
  3. from Middle English chitte, a young animal, whelp, = Low German kitte = German kitze, kieze, a kitten; apparently a diminutive of cat; see cat, and cf. kit, kitten, kitling, and chat, and cf. Latin catulus, a whelp, diminutive of catus, a cat.
  4. Also written chitt, apparently a variant of chat.
  5. Cf. chit and chine.
 

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