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chor

chor is the alternative form of chore.

Meaning of chore

Verb (1)

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

  1. (US, dated) To do chores.

Verb (2)

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

  1. (Scotland, dialectal) To steal.
    • "Graham Reid's the thief. I saw him chore the sweeties. Bit naebody's gaun tae believe a spikkin boolie. ..."1996, Sheena Blackhall, Wittgenstein's Web: Scottish Short Stories, page 11
    Synonyms:
    steal, thieve, twoc

See all 5 meanings of chore

Forms of chor

third-person singular presentchors
present participlechorrin
past participlechorred
pastchorred

Origin of chor

See chore (“steal”).

Phrases with chor

Questions about chor

What is chor the alternative form of?
Chor is the alternative form of chore.

Words near chor in the dictionary

  1. choque
  2. choques
  3. Choquet
  4. Choquet integral
  5. Choquet integrals
  6. chor
  7. choragi
  8. choragic
  9. choragraphy
  10. choragus
  11. choral

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chor (page history and authors); chore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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