Noun: chit
Sample Sentences
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Madam was a little chit of a woman, not five feet in her highest headdress and shoes, and Mr. Washington a great tall man of six feet two. [1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians, Chapter VI:]
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“These are returns,” I said, “quite fit
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To me, who nursed you when a chit.
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For shame, lay by this envious art;
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Is this to act a sister's part?” [1922, Petronius Arbiter, translated by W. C. Firebaugh, Satyricon, Chapter 56:]
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[…] he seemed to come forward from an era of sexual defiance and fighting alliances and to cast a dismissive eye over a little chit like Nick, who had never fought for anything. [2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 4, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:]
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Hilda drove in silence for some time after this piece of unheard-of insolence from that chit Connie. [1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XVII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 305:]
Nouns inflected like chit
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English chitte (“a young animal, cub, whelp”), from Old English *ċytten, *ċietten, *ċitten, from Proto-West Germanic *kittīn, from Proto-Germanic *kittīną (“young animal, fawn, kid”).
2. Cognate with Scots chit (“chit”), Low German kitte (“young animal”), German Kitz (“fawn, kid”). See also kid. See: Middle English Nouns '
chitte', Old English Nouns '
*ċytten'.
Verbs referencing "chit"
English Nouns
zit, Dutch Nouns
ket, Italian Nouns
citto.