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chate

chate verb: to cheat.

Verb

chate (third-person singular simple present chates, present participle chating, simple past and past participle chated)

  1. (Scotland) To cheat.
    • "You want to chate me!" said Teddy, angrily.1899, Horatio Alger, Jr., Paul the Peddler
    • I'm up to your tricks, you young spalpeen, thryin' to chate a poor widder out of her money."1875, Horatio Alger, The Young Outlaw

Noun

chate (plural chates)

  1. (Scotland) Cheat.
    • With that, he began to swear and call me a chate, and threaten me with the police.1885, Grace Greenwood, Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children
    • That there's been chatin' yez are all agreed; only yez can't identify the chate.1865, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Ocean Waifs

Examples of chate in a sentence

  • "But ye better beg than chate me out of me honest dues.1866, Oliver Optic, Hope and Have:
  • But they'll murdher my boy when they find out the chate," said Mrs.1873, Various, The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI.:

Forms of chate

Verb
third-person singular presentchates
present participlechating
past participlechated
pastchated
Noun
pluralchates

Questions about chate

What does chate mean?
Chate means to cheat.
How do you use chate in a sentence?
"But ye better beg than chate me out of me honest dues.
What part of speech is chate?
Chate can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of chate?
The past tense of chate is chated.

Words near chate in the dictionary

  1. Chatburns
  2. chatchka
  3. chatchkas
  4. chatchke
  5. chatchkes
  6. chate
  7. chateau
  8. Chateau Cardboard
  9. chateau migraine
  10. chateau migraines
  11. chateau potatoes

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