(n) a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect, Example:she was incensed that this chit of a girl should dare to make a fool of her in front of the class; she's a saucy chit

chitchat

(n) light informal conversation for social occasions, Syn. causerie, gab, gossip, chin wag, tittle-tattle, small talk, chit chat, chit-chat, chin-wagging, chin-wag, gabfest, chin wagging

chitin

(n) a tough semitransparent horny substance; the principal component of the exoskeletons of arthropods and the cell walls of certain fungi

chitinous

(adj) of or resembling chitin

chiton

(n) a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece

chiton

(n) primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates, Syn. sea cradle, polyplacophore, coat-of-mail shell

chittagong

(n) a port city and industrial center in southeastern Bangladesh on the Bay of Bengal

chitter

(v) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds, Syn. twitter

chitterlings

(n) small intestines of hogs prepared as food, Syn. chitlings, chitlins

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)

Chit

v. i. To shoot out; to sprout. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chit

3d pers. sing. of Chide. Chideth. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chit

n. [ Cf. AS. cīð shoot, sprig, from the same root as cīnan to yawn. See Chink a cleft. ] 1. The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

A little chit of a woman. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An excrescence on the body, as a wart. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A small tool used in cleaving laths. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chitchat

n. [ From Chat, by way of reduplication. ] Familiar or trifling talk; prattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chitin

n. [ See Chiton. ] (Chem.) A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chitinization

n. The process of becoming chitinous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chitinous

a. Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin. [ 1913 Webster ]

chitlins

n. 1. small intestines of hogs prepared as food.
Syn. -- chitterlings. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Chiton

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; a chiton (in sense 1). ] 1. An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora. [ 1913 Webster ]

chittamwood

n. 1. a shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast (Rhamnus purshianus or Rhamnus purshiana), whose bark is the cascara sagrada, used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
Syn. -- cascara, cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico.
Syn. -- false buckthorn, chittimwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a shrubby tree of southern U.S. (Cotinus obovatus) having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; -- called also American smoke tree.
Syn. -- American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING Dictionary DING DE-EN Dictionary

Kindchen { n } | Kindchen { pl }

chit | chits

Chittagong (Stadt in Bangladesh)

Chittagong (city in Bangladesh)

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