chore

See also -chore

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: chô, IPA: /tʃɔː/, X-SAMPA: /tSO:/
• (US) enPR: chôr, IPA: /tʃoʊr/, IPA: /tʃɔːr/, X-SAMPA: /tSO:r/
• (US, regional, southeastern Louisiana) IPA: /koʊr/, /koʊə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English cherre (“odd job, turn, occasion, business”), from Old English ċerr, ċierr (“a turn”), from ċierran (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijanan (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Old Saxon kērian, Old High German chēran (German kehren (“to turn”)). See also char.

Noun

chore (plural chores)

1. A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.

   Washing dishes is a chore, but we can't just stop eating.

Translations

task

• Bulgarian: неприятна работа (bg) (neprijatna rabota)
• Dutch: taak (nl) f
• Esperanto: farotaĵo (eo)
• Finnish: taloustyö (fi)
• French: corvée (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: αγγαρεία (el) (aggareía) f
• Hebrew: מטלה (he)

• Italian: corvè (it) f
• Japanese: 雑用 (ja) (ざつよう, zatsuyō), 雑務 (ja) (ざつむ, zatsumu)
• Korean: 가사 (ko) (家事), 허드렛일 (ko)
• Norwegian: hverdagsrutine (no) m, plikt (no) m
• Portuguese: tarefa (pt)
• Spanish: mandado (es), quehacer (es), tarea (es)
• Telugu: చాకిరీ (te) (chaakiri)

Verb

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

1. (US, dated) To do chores.

References

• “chore” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

Etymology 2

Possibly derived from the Romani word chōr (“thief”), see also Geordie word chor.

Verb

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle chorring, simple past and past participle chorred)

1. (UK, informal) To steal.

Related terms

• chor (Geordie)

Etymology 3

Noun

chore (plural chores)

1. (obsolete) A choir or chorus.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Anagrams

• ocher, ochre

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Latin

Noun

chore

1. vocative singular of chorus

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Polish

Adjective

chore n, plural f., plural n. (comparative bardziej chore; superlative najbardziej chore)

1. neuter singular form of chory; ill, sick

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Portuguese

Verb

chore

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of chorar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of chorar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of chorar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of chorar