chiaus
/t͡ʃaʊs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An Ottoman Empire court official; an attendant, messenger, herald, interpreter.
noun
An Ottoman Empire çavuş (“sergeant”).
noun
Alternative letter-case form of chiaus.
Example Sentences
- "Dap. And will I tell then! By this hand of flesh, Would it might never write good courthand more, If discover. What do you think of me, That I am a chiaus? Face. What’s that? Dap. The Turk was, here― As one would say, do you think I am a Turk? Face. I’ll tell the doctor so. Dap. Do, good sweet captain."
- "The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language at the beginning of the seventeenth century. In 1609, a Chiaus sent by Sir Robert Shirley, from Constantinople to London, had chiaused (or choused) the Turkish and Persian merchants out of ₤4,000, before the arrival of his employer, and had decamped. The affair was quite recent in 1610, when Jonson's "Alchemist" appeared, in which it is thus alluded to:[…]"
- "The greater part of the Chiaus's do the Duty of Serjeants"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: چاوش
Usage
Inflected Forms
chiauses (plural)
Chaoosh (alternative, obsolete)
Chaoush (alternative, obsolete)
chaoux (alternative, obsolete)
Chaus (alternative, obsolete)
chaush (alternative, obsolete)
chawush (alternative, obsolete)
chiaous (alternative, obsolete)
chiause (alternative, obsolete)
chiaush (alternative, obsolete)
Chiauss (alternative, obsolete)
Chiaux (alternative, obsolete)