chate

See also: châté and chatę

English

Verb

chate (third-person singular simple present chates, present participle chating, simple past and past participle chated)

1. (Scotland) To cheat.
   • 1899, Horatio Alger, Jr., Paul the Peddler‎:

     "You want to chate me!" said Teddy, angrily.

   • 1875, Horatio Alger, The Young Outlaw‎:

     I'm up to your tricks, you young spalpeen, thryin' to chate a poor widder out of her money."

   • 1866, Oliver Optic, Hope and Have‎:

     "But ye better beg than chate me out of me honest dues.

   • 1873, Various, The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI.‎:

     But they'll murdher my boy when they find out the chate," said Mrs. Rooney. "

Noun

chate (plural chates)

1. (Scotland) Cheat.
   • 1885, Grace Greenwood, Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children‎:

     With that, he began to swear and call me a chate, and threaten me with the police.

   • 1865, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Ocean Waifs‎:

     That there's been chatin' yez are all agreed; only yez can't identify the chate.

Anagrams

• 'tache, Tache, Taché, Teach, Tâche, cheat, he-cat, tache, teach, theca

Old French

Noun

chate oblique singular, f (oblique plural chates, nominative singular chate, nominative plural chates)

1. female equivalent of chat (“cat”)

Descendants

• Middle French: chatte
  • French: chatte
• Walloon: cate, tchete

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (chate, supplement)