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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A statement of an amount owed for food and drink; a check.
  2. n. A short letter; a note.
  3. n. A Brownie point: earned vital chits with his party by making fundraising speeches.
  4. n. A child.
  5. n. A saucy girl or young woman.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The germ or embryo of a seed. See cut under wheat.
  2. n. A pimple; a wart.
  3. To sprout; shoot, as a seed or plant.
  4. n. 1. A young animal; a whelp.
  5. n. Specifically— A young cat; a kitten.
  6. n. A child or babe; a pert young person, especially a girl.
  7. n. A kind of bird.
  8. n. An instrument for cleaving laths.
  9. A Middle English contraction of chideth Chaucer.
  10. n. In the East Indies, China, Japan, etc., a note or letter; a short writing of any kind, as a letter of recommendation, a note of indebtedness, an order, a pass, etc. The form chitty is not in use in China and Japan.
  11. n. plural Small rice.
  12. n. Also used attributively. See chitty-faced.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
  2. n. A pert young woman.
  3. n. A sassy (saucy) or forward young person.
  4. n. The embryonic growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; a seedling.
  5. n. obsolete An excrescence on the body, as a wart.
  6. v. intransitive To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.
  7. v. transitive To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.
  8. v. transitive To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.
  9. n. A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
  10. n. pharmacology A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.
  11. n. India, China A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
  12. n. US, slang A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.
  13. n. A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.
  14. n. US, slang, euphemistic Alternative to using the vulgarity, shit.
  15. interj. US, slang, euphemistic Alternative to using the vulgarity, shit.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout.
  2. n. A child or babe; ; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
  3. n. obsolete An excrescence on the body, as a wart.
  4. n. A small tool used in cleaving laths.
  5. n. A short letter or note; a written message or memorandum; a certificate given to a servant; a pass, or the like.
  6. n. India, China, etc. A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
  7. v. To shoot out; to sprout.
  8. obsolete Chideth.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect
  2. n. the bill in a restaurant

Etymologies

  1. Euphemistic variation of shit (Wiktionary)
  2. Obsolete chitty, from Hindi ciṭṭhī, note, letter, from Sanskrit *citrikā, *citritā, note.Middle English, young animal. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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