chad

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English

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Etymology 1

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Mounds of chads generated from punch cards

Uncertain; possibly from the English slang term chat (louse). The word predates the chadless punch, which therefore cannot be its origin,[1] and a derivation from Scots chad (river gravel) stated in some dictionaries is now thought to be nothing more than guesswork.[2]

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chad (countable and uncountable, plural chad or chads)[3]

  1. (uncountable) Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.
    • 2011 June 1, David P. Mikkelson, “Chad: Does the word ‘chad’ come from the Chadless keypunch, invented by a Mr. Chadless?”, in Snopes.com[2], retrieved 7 September 2016:
      The keypunch wasn't named after a Mr. Chadless; it was so named because, as expected, it punched tape while producing little or no chad.
  2. (countable) One of these pieces of paper.
    • 1939 May 20, Ross A. Lake, Printing Perforating Telegraph Apparatus[3], US Patent 2255794:
      Prior devices of the type according to the present invention have been arranged to cut out the perforations completely at a single movement, thereby producing chads or waste material which often present difficult problems of disposal.
    • 1959, J[ohn] W[illiam] Freebody, Telegraphy, London: Isaac Pitman & Sons, →OCLC:
      The small hinged discs of paper, called ‘chad’, remain attached to the body of the tape.
    • 2000 December 12, Supreme Court of the United States, per curiam, “Bush v. Gore”, in United States Reports, volume 531, page 98 at 105:
      Much of the controversy seems to revolve around ballot cards designed to be perforated by a stylus but which, either through error or deliberate omission, have not been perforated with sufficient precision for a machine to count them. In some cases a piece of the card—a chad—is hanging, say by two corners. In other cases there is no separation at all, just an indentation.
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Etymology 2

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From ch- +‎ had, from ich + had.

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chad

  1. (West Country, obsolete) I had
    • 1839, An Exmoor Scolding, London: John Russell Smith, page 11:
      Chad et in my meend, and zo chave still. Bet chawnt drow et out bevore tha begen'st agen, and than chell.

Etymology 3

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Noun

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chad (plural chads)

  1. (Internet slang, seduction community, incel slang) Alternative spelling of Chad (alpha-male; a virile man)
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  1. ^ David P. Mikkelson (2011 June 1) “Chad: Does the word ‘chad’ come from the Chadless keypunch, invented by a Mr. Chadless?”, in Snopes.com[1], retrieved 7 September 2016.
  2. ^ William Safire (2004) The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time: Wit and Wisdom from the Popular “On Language” Column in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 43.
  3. ^ chad” (US) / “chad” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.

Middle English

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See ch-.

Verb

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chad

  1. I had

Palauan

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Etymology

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From Pre-Palauan *qata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaʀta (outsiders, alien people). Cognate with Laboya ata, Cebuano agta, Tagalog agta.

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chad

  1. person

Welsh

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chad

  1. Aspirate mutation of cad.

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cad gad nghad chad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.