chate
English
Verb
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- (Scotland) To cheat.
- 1899, Horatio Alger, Jr., Paul the Peddler[1]:
- "You want to chate me!" said Teddy, angrily.
- 1875, Horatio Alger, The Young Outlaw[2]:
- 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[3]:
- "But ye better beg than chate me out of me honest dues.
- 1873, Various, The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI.[4]:
- But they'll murdher my boy when they find out the chate," said Mrs. Rooney. "
Noun
chate (plural chates)
- (Scotland) Cheat.
- 1885, Grace Greenwood, Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children[5]:
- With that, he began to swear and call me a chate, and threaten me with the police.
Anagrams
Old French
Noun
chate oblique singular, f (oblique plural chates, nominative singular chate, nominative plural chates)
- (deprecated template usage) feminine equivalent of chat (cat)
Descendants
- Middle French: chatte
- French: chatte
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- Walloon: chate
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (chate, supplement)