2. Noun. (neologism vulgar) (alternative spelling of choad) ¹
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Definition of Chode
1. chide [v] - See also: chide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chode
Literary usage of Chode
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"But all who slacken'd to the pains of war, Them with rebuke he chode and wrathful
spake : " Feel ye no shame ? O ye to evil doom'd, ..."
2. History of the European Languages: Or, Researches Into the Affinities of the by Alexander Murray (1823)
"... chode, for GODE or GAET, a going, a movement; PRO-chode, for FORE-GAED,
progress, going forth ; VEI-chode, going away or out; ..."
3. A Companion to English Grammars by John Foster (1898)
""chode" is used frequently in the English Bible as the past tense of chide, as,
... The people chode with Moses." " Clomb"—Both Milton and Coleridge use ..."
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