Cheat vs. Chit — What's the Difference?

Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit

A short official note, typically recording a sum owed

To deceive by trickery; swindle

An impudent or arrogant young woman

To deprive by trickery; defraud

Cause (a potato) to sprout by placing it in a cool light place.

To mislead; fool

A statement of an amount owed for food and drink, especially one signed to indicate acceptance of the charge.

To elude; escape

A short letter; a note.

To act dishonestly; practice fraud.

A ticket or token, especially one redeemable for food or drink.

To violate rules deliberately, as in a game

(Informal) An amount of credit considered as earned, especially by favorably impressing one having power or influence

(Informal) To be sexually unfaithful

A child.

(Sports) To position oneself closer to a certain area than is normal or expected

A young woman regarded as immature or insignificant.

An act of cheating; a fraud or swindle.

A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.

One who cheats; a swindler.

A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.

A technique that exploits a flaw or hidden feature in a video game or computer program.

The embryonic growing bud of a plant

(Law) Fraudulent acquisition of another's property.

(obsolete) An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.

(Botany) Any of several species of brome, especially Bromus secalinus, an annual European grass widespread as a weed.

A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.

(intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.

(historical) A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system.

(intransitive) 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.

(pharmacology) A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.

(transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.

(gaming) A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.

(transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.

A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.

Someone who cheats.

A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.

A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.

The weed cheatgrass.

Shit.

(card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.

To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.

(video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.

To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.

(obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.

To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

Shit.

One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.

The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.

A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; - called also chess. See Chess.

A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.

The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.

An excrescence on the body, as a wart.

Wheat, or bread made from wheat.

A small tool used in cleaving laths.

To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.

A short letter or note; a written message or memorandum; a certificate given to a servant; a pass, or the like.

To beguile.

A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.

To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.

To shoot out; to sprout.

Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

Chideth.

Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

The bill in a restaurant;

Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme;

A deception for profit to yourself

Deprive somebody of something by deceit;

Engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud;

Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage;