chate
English
Verb
chate (third-person singular simple present chates, present participle chating, simple past and past participle chated)
Noun
chate (plural chates)
- (Scotland) Cheat.
- 1865, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Ocean Waifs:
- That there's been chatin' yez are all agreed; only yez can't identify the chate.
Old French
Noun
chate oblique singular, f (oblique plural chates, nominative singular chate, nominative plural chates)
- female equivalent of chat (cat)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (chate, supplement)
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