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cheat¹
- /ˈt͡ʃiːt/
- [ˈt͡ʃʰɪi̯t]
Rhymes with -iːt
Where it comes from
Verb from Middle English achetan, variant of escheten, from Old French escheat, past participle of escheoir, escheoiter, from Late Latin *excadēre (“fall away, fall out”), from (Latin) ex- + cadere (“fall”). Displaced native Old English beswīcan.
Noun from verb and/or Middle English chete, aphetic form of achete, escheat, eschete (“the reversion of property to the state”), from Anglo-Norman eschete and Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), past participle of escheoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Late Latin *excadēre (“fall away, fall out”), from (Latin) ex- + cadere (“fall”).
Doublet of escheat.
verb cheats · cheating · cheated
- To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation. My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
- To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship. My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
- To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing. He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
- To deceive; to fool; to trick. My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
- To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
noun cheats
- An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat.
- Someone who cheats. And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; but some went betwixt them, and with much ado and much struggling and cursing they were parted, and it being shown that the dice wer
- The weed cheatgrass.
- Synonym of bullshit (“a card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies”).
- A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code. I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]
cheat²
- /ˈt͡ʃiːt/
- [ˈt͡ʃʰɪi̯t]
Rhymes with -iːt
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English chet (“low-quality bread”), of unknown origin; compare manchet.
noun
- A sort of low-quality bread. The raueled cheat therfore is generallie ſo made that out of one buſhell of meale, after two and twentie pounds of bran be ſifted and taken from it (wherevnto they ad the gurgeons that riſe from the manchet) they make thirtie cast, euerie lofe weighing eightéene ounces into the ouen and ſixteene oun
