chores
Use Chores in a sentence
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.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a small routine task, esp a domestic one |
| 2. | an unpleasant task |
| [C19: variant of Middle English chare; related to | |
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Chores
is always a great word to know.
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
chore
1746, Amer.Eng., variant of char, from M.E. cherre "odd job," from O.E. cerr, cierr "turn, occasion."
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Example sentences
And fears persist among some senior lawyers about sending even the simplest chores offshore.
Don't blame your job, the traffic or your mindless chores.
They mean they wish they had someone who would do errands and chores.
We talked about bringing in part of our allowance and doing extra chores to earn money.
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