Chore

English

Noun

Chore (plural chores)

1. A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.

Verb

Chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle chorring, simple past and past participle chorred)

1. (UK, informal) To steal.

Adjectives for Chore

old-fashioned; bitter; small; domestic; weary.

Verbs for Chore

dispatch —s; do —s; perform —s; plan —; —s bind; — devolve on; — occupy; — settle on.

Thesaurus

task, tend, things to do, stint, take care of, tall order, tough job, tough proposition, trial, tribulation, turn a hand, uphill work, upon, valet, wait, wait on, work, work for, Augean task, Herculean task, administer to, assignment, attend, attend on, backbreaker, ballbuster, bitch, busywork, care for, char, chare, charge, commission, dance attendance upon, dead lift, devoir, do chars, do for, do service to, do the chores, drudge, duty, effort, errand, exercise, fish to fry, handful, hard job, hard pull, heavy sledding, help, homework, job, job of work, labor, lackey, large order, look after, maid, make-work, man-sized job, matters in hand, minister to, mission, odd job, pander to, piece of work, project, rough go, serve, service,

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: chô, IPA: /tʃɔː/, SAMPA: /tSO:/
• (US) enPR: chôr, IPA: /tʃoʊr/, IPA: /tʃɔːr/, SAMPA: /tSO:r/

  Rhymes: -ɔː(r)

• dialectal US (e.g. southeastern Louisiana): IPA: /koʊr~koʊə/

Etymology 1

From Middle English cherre (“odd job, turn, occasion, business”), from Old English ċerr, ċierr (“a turn”) from ċierran (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijanan (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Old Saxon kērian, Old High German chēran (German kehren (“to turn”)).

Etymology 2

Possibly derived from the Romani word chōr (“thief”), see also Geordie word chor.

Related terms

• chor (Geordie)

Translations

Noun

task

Bulgarian: неприятна работа (bg) Dutch: taak (nl) f. Esperanto: farotaĵo (eo) Finnish: taloustyö (fi) French: corvée (fr)

Hebrew: מטלה (he) Japanese: 雑用 (ja) (ざつよう, zatsuyō), 雑務 (ja) (ざつむ, zatsumu) Korean: 가사 (ko) (家事), 허드렛일 (ko) Spanish: quehacer (es), mandado (es) Telugu: చాకిరీ (te)

Anagrams

• ocher, ochre

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Latin

Noun

chore

1. vocative singular of chorus

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Polish

Adjective

Chore n., plural f., plural n. (comparative bardziej Chore; superlative najbardziej Chore)

1. neuter singular form of chory; ill, sick

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Portuguese

Verb

Chore

1. chorar.
2. chorar.
3. chorar.
4. chorar.