chad

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.
2. (countable) One of these pieces of paper.

Contraction

I had

Synonyms

chip

scrap

shaving

paper scrap

waste

lake chad

Translations

تشاد

🇹🇩

Abfall

Lumpen

Müll

Stanzabfall

Stanzrest

Trödel

déchets

miettes

chutes

tchad

Girella tephraeops

Chade

🇹🇩

Çad

🇹🇩

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡ʃæd/

Etymology

Cognate with Scots: chad

In summary

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