chit /t͡ʃɪt/noun 13verb 3exclamation 1forms 3 noun13 •A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip. •(India, Philippines) A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club. •(Philippines) A restaurant bill or checkWhen asking for the bill or chit in a Philippine restaurant, you can make use of hand signals if the waiter is quite far off. — 2007 •(old-fashioned) A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message. •(historical) A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system. •A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.Hilda drove in silence for some time after this piece of unheard-of insolence from that chit Connie. — 1928 •(US, slang) A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.Harry would call in a chit with some desk manager who owed him a favor. — 2003 •A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.Madam was a little chit of a woman, not five feet in her highest headdress and shoes, and Mr. Washington a great tall man of six feet two. — 1859 •The embryonic growing bud of a plant.the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes •A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization. •(US, slang) Shit. •A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.Then lastly (with their Chit) they cleave their Laths into their thicknesses, by the Quarter Grain, which is that Grain which is seen to run in strait Lines towards the Pith. — 1734 •(no longer used) An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple. verb3 •(UK) To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.Gardeners argue among themselves about how necessary chitting is, but I stick with tradition and do chit my seed potatoes. — 2010 •(dialect, UK) To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.I have known it chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth of the Cistern and within three days come enough; the Maltster being forced to stir it six, seven or eight times a day, — 1721 •(dialect, UK) To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination. exclamation1 •(US, slang) Shit. formschitted · chitting · chits
