chut

chut (plural chuts)

1. A repeated short, low vocal sound made by guinea pigs, thought to express interest or curiosity.

chut (third-person singular simple present chuts, present participle chutting, simple past and past participle chutted)

1. (intransitive) To produce this sound.

Borrowed from Hindi छत (chat, “roof, ceiling”).

chut (plural chuts)

1. (India) A coarse cotton sheet, stretched on a frame and whitewashed, forming the ceiling of a room.

chut

1. (archaic) An expression of impatience.
   • 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 59:

     “The instinct that led me to insist on examining those coffee-cups. Chut! no more now!”

• chut pattern

• tuch, utch

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ʃy/

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chut

1. third-person singular past historic of choir

Onomatopoeic.

• chtt

• IPA^(key): /ʃyt/

chut

1. shush (a request of silence)

• “chut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Proto-Athabaskan *kûˑd. Cognate with Ahtna cuut.

chut

1. A classificatory root for food
2. to seize

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, pages 91-92

chut

1. stupid

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xǫtь.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈxut/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈxut/

chut f (diminutive chútka)

1. taste
2. appetite
3. pleasure

   v něčem chut jmieti ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   něčso v chut jmieti ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   s chuťú ― with zest

• Czech: chuť

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “chut”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Borrowed from English shoot.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃut/ [ˈt͡ʃut̪]
• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: chut

chut m (plural chuts)

1. (sports) shot
   • 20 August 2023, Jordi Quixano, “España se hace inmortal con la conquista de su primer Mundial femenino”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Pero Jenni, peleada con los once metros, erró como le ocurriera ante Costa Rica en la apertura del Mundial, chut flojo y a las manoplas de la portera.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “chut”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /χɨ̞t/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /χɪt/

chut

1. aspirate mutation of cut