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shetty

shetty is the alternative form of chete.

Meaning of chete

Noun

chete (plural chetes)

  1. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
    • Loo, known to go skits, skits
      Big long chete, tryna fling it at melons
      If I stab kids, kids
      Then who the fuck did it on Teron2018 August 25, (1011) Eleven X (Splash) Russ X Taze, here Taze, “Anti”, 2:50–57

Proper noun capitalized: Shetty

Shetty (plural Shettys)

  1. A surname from Kannada.

Forms of shetty

Noun
pluralshetties
Proper noun
pluralShettys

Origin of shetty

Borrowed from Kannada ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ (śeṭṭi).

Questions about shetty

What does shetty mean?
Shetty means a surname from Kannada.
What is shetty the alternative form of?
Shetty is the alternative form of chete.
What part of speech is shetty?
Shetty is a proper noun.

Words near shetty in the dictionary

  1. Shetterlys
  2. Shetters
  3. shetties
  4. shetting
  5. Shettleston
  6. shetty
  7. Shettys
  8. Sheu
  9. sheugh
  10. sheughs
  11. Sheung Shui

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shetty (page history and authors); Shetty (page history and authors); chete (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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