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NOUNS 1. a letter or note; a written message (Anglo-Indian) 2. an endearing name for a cat; also CHITTY-PUSS (dialect) 3. the wren (dialect) 4. the Lesser Redpole, Linota rufescens (dialect) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY Adjective 1.: from chit n. (a freckle or wart, obsolete) + -y Adjective 2. & 3.: apparently deduced from chitty-face, (thin face), but afterwards associated with chit (n. the young of a beast) Noun 1: from Hindī chiṭṭhī, Mahrātī chiṭṭī:—Skr. chitra spot, mark, etc EXAMPLE (for adjective 1) From: The Rival Milliners: or, the Humours of Covent Garden. A Tragi-Comi-Operatic-Pastoral Farce Written by Robert Drury, 1737
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