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chore

[chawr, chohr]
–noun
1. a small or odd job; routine task.
2. chores, the everyday work around a house or farm.
3. a hard or unpleasant task: Solving the problem was quite a chore.

Origin:
1375–1425; late ME char, OE cyrr, var. of cierr, cerr char 3


1. duty, work, errand, stint. 1, 2. See task.
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chore   (chôr, chōr)   
n.  
  1. A routine or minor duty or task. See Synonyms at task.

  2. chores Daily or routine domestic tasks, especially a farmer's routine morning and evening tasks, such as feeding livestock.

  3. An unpleasant or burdensome task.


[Variant of char3.]
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Word Origin & History

chore 
1746, Amer.Eng., variant of char, from M.E. cherre "odd job," from O.E. cerr, cierr "turn, occasion."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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