chete
English
Etymology
Clipping of machete
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃɛ.ti/, /ˈt͡ʃɛ.ti/
- Rhymes: -ɛti
Noun
chete (plural chetes)
- (MLE, slang) knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- Synonyms: jook, jooker, ching, ying, rambo, poker, pokey, bassy, shank, nank, splash, splasher, cheffer, cutter
- 2018 August 25, (1011) Eleven X (Splash) Russ X Taze, here Taze (lyrics and music), “Anti”, 2:50–57:
- Loo, known to go skits, skits
Big long chete, tryna fling it at melons
If I stab kids, kids
Then who the fuck did it on Teron
- 2021 September 13, Kage X Spooks X NoToss X Tragic (lyrics and music), “The Race”, 1:10–1:13:
- Niggas like talk like they getting this chetter
Get caught, getting bust, do better!
- 2022 August 1, “Moroccan Tea” (0:18 from the start), 8 OLANNA (lyrics):
- I was 15 with the longest shetty
Back then I was called youngest shetty
Back then your favourite rapper on telly
Was at home just watchin telly
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old English ċēte, Anglian form of *ċīete, ċȳte.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃeːt(ə)/
References
- M. T. Löfvenberg (1944) “An Etymological Note”, in Studia Neophilologica, volume 17, number 2, , pages 259-265
- “chēte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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