Chanate
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 a kind of bird
"The farmer will hardly have sowed his wheat and maize fields when whole flocks of hungry chanates descend upon the land, scratch out the seeds, and eat them."
- 2 a kind of tree (Colophospermum mopane) uncountable
"The dominant tree, often to the exclusion of many others, is Colophospermum mopane, commonly known as mopane or chanate."
- 3 Obsolete spelling of khanate. alt-of, obsolete
"Gengis-Chan and Batuj spread terror over Europe. At a subsequent period this people separated into several Chanates."
- 4 a kind of bird; great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
- 5 a kind of bird; red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
"“A chanate has come to pay us a visit,” doña Gertrudis said. [...] “It’s a black bird with red shoulders,”"
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- 6 black person derogatory, slang
"Pelaquillo's older brother was there. We called him Chanate, the name of a little black bird, because he was so dark."
- 7 coffee slang
"I’m sippin’ on some chanate [coffee] right now."
Synonyms
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More examples"The farmer will hardly have sowed his wheat and maize fields when whole flocks of hungry chanates descend upon the land, scratch out the seeds, and eat them."
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish chanate, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tzanatl (“great-tailed grackle”).
Borrowed from Portuguese chanate, from an indigenous language of Mozambique.
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