2. Verb. (third-person singular of chit) ¹
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Definition of Chits
1. chit [n] - See also: chit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chits
Literary usage of Chits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Heart of Japan: Glimpses of Life and Nature Far from the Travellers by Clarence Ludlow Brownell (1903)
"Deuced convenient things, you know," a globe-trotter remarked to us of chits;
and he was right. Too convenient, if anything. Take, for instance, the man ..."
2. The Early History of the Tories: From the Accession of Charles the Second to by Clement Boulton Roylance Kent (1908)
"Some contemporary verses, entitled The Young Statesman, which have been ascribed
to Dryden, suggest indeed that the ' chits,' as they were called, ..."
3. The History of England from the Restoration to the Death of William III by Richard Lodge (1910)
"... it delivered him from the obligation to talk much".2 This new triumvirate of
comparatively young men received the nickname of "the chits" from a ..."
4. Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay by Fanny Burney, Charlotte Barrett (1854)
"little chits never to ask my consent first, nor my benediction afterwards.
Will they wait till their little ones give them a better example ? ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1864)
"of rice, or even double that quantity, at three or four meals, vegetables 1 to
2 chits., dal or fish 1 to 4 chite, once or twice a week, parched grain 2 to ..."
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