# chad
## English
### Etymology 1

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.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /t͡ʃæd/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -æd
* Homophone: Chad

#### Noun

chad (countable and uncountable, plural chad or chads)
* (uncountable) Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.
** 2011 June 1, David P. Mikkelson, “Chad: Does the word ‘chad’ come from the Chadless keypunch, invented by a Mr. Chadless?”, in Snopes.com‎, retrieved 7 September 2016:The keypunch wasn't named after a Mr. Chadless; it was so named because, as expected, it punched tape while producing little or no chad.
* (countable) One of these pieces of paper.
** 1939 May 20, Ross A. Lake, Printing Perforating Telegraph Apparatus‎, US Patent 2255794:Prior devices of the type according to the present invention have been arranged to cut out the perforations completely at a single movement, thereby producing chads or waste material which often present difficult problems of disposal.
** 1959, J[ohn] W[illiam] Freebody, Telegraphy, London: Isaac Pitman & Sons, →OCLC:The small hinged discs of paper, called ‘chad’, remain attached to the body of the tape.
** 2000 December 12, Supreme Court of the United States, per curiam, “Bush v. Gore”, in United States Reports, volume 531, page 98 at 105:Much of the controversy seems to revolve around ballot cards designed to be perforated by a stylus but which, either through error or deliberate omission, have not been perforated with sufficient precision for a machine to count them. In some cases a piece of the card—a chad—is hanging, say by two corners. In other cases there is no separation at all, just an indentation.

##### Derived terms

* chadless
* dimpled chad
* hanging chad
* pregnant chad
* swinging-door chad
* tri-chad

##### See also

* Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

### Etymology 2

From ch- +‎ had, from ich + had.

#### Contraction

chad
* (West Country, obsolete) I had
** 1839, An Exmoor Scolding, London: John Russell Smith, page 11:Chad et in my meend, and zo chave still. Bet chawnt drow et out bevore tha begen'st agen, and than chell.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

chad (plural chads)
* (Internet slang, seduction community, incel slang) Alternative spelling of Chad (“alpha-male; a virile man”)

##### Derived terms

* chadmaxx

### References

* ↑ David P. Mikkelson (2011 June 1) “Chad: Does the word ‘chad’ come from the Chadless keypunch, invented by a Mr. Chadless?”, in Snopes.com‎, retrieved 7 September 2016.
* ↑ William Safire (2004) The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time: Wit and Wisdom from the Popular “On Language” Column in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 43.
* ↑ “chad” (US) / “chad” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.

## Middle English
### Etymology

See ch-.

### Verb

chad
* I had

## Palauan
### Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *qata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaʀta (“outsiders, alien people”). Cognate with Laboya ata, Cebuano agta, Tagalog agta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔað/

### Noun

chad
* person

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /χaːd/

### Noun

chad
* Aspirate mutation of cad.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.