chore

From earlier char, from Middle English charr, charre, cherre (“odd job, turn, occasion, business”), from Old English ċerr, ċierr (“a turn”), from ċierran (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijaną (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Dutch keer (“time; turn; occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn; bend; wind; back-flip; u-turn”). Also related to Saterland Frisian kiere, käire (“to turn”), Old Saxon kērian, Old High German chēran (“to turn”) (German kehren (“to turn”), Dutch keren (“to turn”)). See also char.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA^(key): /tʃɔː/
• (General American) enPR: chôr, IPA^(key): /tʃɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: chōr, IPA^(key): /tʃo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /tʃoə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

chore (plural chores)

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

   Washing dishes is a chore, but we cannot just stop eating.

• choreful
• choreless
• chorelike
• choresome

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

1. (US, dated) To do chores.

• “chore” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

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

• chor (Geordie)

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA^(key): /tʃɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: chōr, IPA^(key): /tʃo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /tʃoə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

1. (Britain, informal) To steal.

• steal (standard English)
• thieve (standard English)
• twoc (Geordie)

chore (plural chores)

1. (obsolete) A choir or chorus.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

• Roche, ocher, ochre, roche

chore

1. vocative singular of chorus

chore

1. Superseded spelling of chóre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔ.rɛ/

chore

1. inflection of chory:
   1. neuter nominative, accusative, and vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative, accusative, and vocative plural

chore

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of chorar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of chorar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of chorar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of chorar