chits

Noun (1)

chit (plural chits)

1. A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
   • 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
2. A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.
   • 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

Noun (2)

chit (plural chits)

1. The embryonic growing bud of a plant.
   • Near-synonyms: shoot, sprout, seedling

   Synonyms:

   shoot, sprout, seedling

2. (obsolete) An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.

Noun (3)

chit (plural chits)

1. (UK, dated, dialectal) A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
2. (UK, dialectal, historical) A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system.

   Synonyms:

   chitty, scrip, tommy

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