chut

See also: chuť, chút, chût, chụt, and Chứt

English

Etymology 1

Noun

chut (plural chuts)

1. A repeated short, low vocal sound made by guinea pigs, thought to express interest or curiosity.

Verb

chut (third-person singular simple present chuts, present participle chutting, simple past and past participle chutted)

1. (intransitive) To produce this sound.

Etymology 2

Hindi छत (chat, “roof, ceiling”)

Noun

chut (plural chuts)

1. (India) A coarse cotton sheet, stretched on a frame and whitewashed, forming the ceiling of a room.

Etymology 3

Interjection

chut

1. (archaic) An expression of impatience.
   • 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 59:

     “The instinct that led me to insist on examining those coffee-cups. Chut! no more now!”

See also

• chut pattern

Anagrams

• tuch, utch

French

Etymology 1

Conjugated form

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃy/

• Audio (Paris):

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Verb

chut

1. third-person singular past historic of choir

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic

Alternative forms

• chtt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃyt/

Interjection

chut

1. shush (a request of silence)

Further reading

• “chut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Lower Tanana

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *kûˑd. Cognate with Ahtna cuut.

Root

chut

1. A classificatory root for food
2. to seize

Stem set

Aspect	Imperfective	Perfective	Future	Optative
Momentaneous	chut	chut	cheɬ	chut
Customary	chek	chek	chek	chek
Reversitative	chet	chet	chet	chet
Neuter	chut	chut	chut	chut

Derived terms

• etlchut (“food is in position”)
• ni'ilchudi (“winter food supply”)

References

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, pages 91-92

Mizo

Adjective

chut

1. stupid

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xǫtь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈxut/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈxut/

Noun

chut f (diminutive chútka)

1. taste
2. appetite
3. pleasure

   v něčem chut jmieti ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   něčso v chut jmieti ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   s chuťú ― with zest

Declension

Declension of chut (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	chut	chuti	chuti
genitive	chuti	chuťú	chutí
dative	chuti	chutma	chutem
accusative	chut	chuti	chuti
vocative	chuti	chuti	chuti
locative	chuti	chuťú	chutech
instrumental	chuťú	chutma	chutmi

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.

Related terms

• chot
• chtieti

Descendants

• Czech: chuť

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “chut”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English shoot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃut/ [ˈt͡ʃut̪]
• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: chut

Noun

chut m (plural chuts)

1. (sports) shot
   • 20 August 2023, Jordi Quixano, “España se hace inmortal con la conquista de su primer Mundial femenino”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Pero Jenni, peleada con los once metros, erró como le ocurriera ante Costa Rica en la apertura del Mundial, chut flojo y a las manoplas de la portera.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “chut”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /χɨ̞t/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /χɪt/

Noun

chut

1. aspirate mutation of cut

Mutation

Mutated forms of cut

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cut	gut	nghut	chut

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.