chit vs hum

chit

noun
  • Shit. 

  • A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system. 

  • A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. 

  • A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization. 

  • A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe. 

  • A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman. 

  • A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor. 

  • A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club. 

  • The embryonic growing bud of a plant 

  • A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip. 

intj
  • Shit. 

verb
  • To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination. 

  • To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant. 

  • To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil. 

hum

noun
  • Unpleasant odour. 

  • A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people. 

  • Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive. 

  • A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. 

  • An often indistinct sound resembling human humming. 

verb
  • To produce low sounds which blend continuously 

  • To express by humming. 

  • To reek, smell bad. 

  • To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. 

  • To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly 

  • To buzz, be busily active like a beehive 

intj
  • Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c. 

  • Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c. 

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