Crossword clues for chitty
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chitty \Chit"ty\, a.
Full of chits or sprouts.
Childish; like a babe. [Obs.]
Chit \Chit\, Chitty \Chit"ty\, n. [Hind. chi[.t][.t][=i].]
A short letter or note; a written message or memorandum; a certificate given to a servant; a pass, or the like.
A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club. [India, China, etc.]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. a small note, such as a pass or voucher slip; a chit. Etymology 2
a. 1 full of chits or sprouts 2 childish; like a baby
Wikipedia
The Chitty are a distinctive group of Tamil people found mainly in Malacca and Singapore, who are also known as the Indian Peranakans. As of today, their population stands at 2,000.
The Chitty are a distinctive group of Tamil people found mainly in Malacca and Singapore. Chitty may also refer to:
- Chitty Street, a street in the London Borough of Camden
- A small piece of paper, usually a note, contract or voucher
Chitty (first name and dates unknown) was an English first-class cricketer who was active in the 1790s playing for Surrey. He is recorded in one first-class match in 1796, totalling 0 runs with a highest score of 0.
Usage examples of "chitty".
I had been busy, more or less, with the pages of Blackstone and Chitty, and other text-books of the first year of legal study.
Hakeswill found the chitties on the table and went to the door, leaving small bloody marks on the floor from his opened blister.
And this morning, sir, when he should have been issuing the chitties he was employed on his own business.
The men crowded about him with their chitties and he pulled out a pencil and scrawled his initials in the corner of each one, thus confirming that they had completed and were owed for one journey.
He wants me back at Deogaum because he reckons there are forged chitties in the camp.
His blood had soaked the chitties Clare whimpered when she saw the blood.
All written down on this chitty what I am giving to you at this moment in time sah!
What indeed could be more conducive to salutary equanimity in the mind of a young man so singularly circumstanced, than the study of Blackstone, of Coke, and of Chitty?