chate
See also: châté and chatę
English
Verb
chate (third-person singular simple present chates, present participle chating, simple past and past participle chated)
- (Scotland) To cheat.
- 1899, Horatio Alger, Jr., Paul the Peddler:
- "You want to chate me!" said Teddy, angrily.
- 1875, Horatio Alger, The Young Outlaw:
- I'm up to your tricks, you young spalpeen, thryin' to chate a poor widder out of her money."
- 1866, Oliver Optic, Hope and Have:
- "But ye better beg than chate me out of me honest dues.
- 1873, Various, The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI.:
- But they'll murdher my boy when they find out the chate," said Mrs. Rooney. "
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Noun
chate (plural chates)
- (Scotland) Cheat.
- 1885, Grace Greenwood, Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children:
- With that, he began to swear and call me a chate, and threaten me with the police.
- 1865, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Ocean Waifs:
- That there's been chatin' yez are all agreed; only yez can't identify the chate.
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Anagrams
- 'tache, Tache, Taché, Teach, Tâche, cheat, he-cat, tache, teach, theca
Old French
Noun
chate f (oblique plural chates, nominative singular chate, nominative plural chates)
- female equivalent of chat (cat)
Descendants
- Middle French: chatte
- French: chatte
- Tourangeau: chatte
- Walloon: chate
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (chate, supplement)