chode

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃəʊd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tʃoʊd/

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• Homophone: choad
• Rhymes: -əʊd

Formed in 16th–17th century by analogy with other strong verbs.

chode

1. (archaic) simple past of chide

   Synonyms: chid, chided

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 31:36:

     And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Number 20:30:

     And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

See choda.

chode (plural chodes)

1. Alternative spelling of choad.

From French échauder.

• IPA^(key): /ʃode/

chode

1. (transitive) to scald
2. (intransitive) to shrivel

   Fwi a chode.

   The fruit shriveled.

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