Cate vs Chate - What's the difference?

cate | chate |

As nouns the difference between cate and chate

is that cate is a delicacy or item of food while chate is cheat.

As a proper noun Cate

is a diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms; more often spelled Kate.

As a verb chate is

to cheat.

cate

English

Noun

(en noun)

(in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.

* 1590s , (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew , First Folio 1623, Act I:

Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates , and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation [...].

* 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:

Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?

* 1820 , (John Keats), The Eve of St. Agnes , l. 172-3:

All cates and dainties shall be storèd there / Quickly on this feast-night

* 1985 , (Anthony Burgess), Kingdom of the Wicked :

He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.

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chate

English

Verb

(chat)

(Scotland) To cheat.

* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Horatio Alger, Jr., title=Paul the Peddler, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="You want to chate me!" said Teddy, angrily.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1875, author=Horatio Alger, title=The Young Outlaw, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I'm up to your tricks, you young spalpeen, thryin' to chate a poor widder out of her money."}}

* {{quote-book, year=1866, author=Oliver Optic, title=Hope and Have, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="But ye better beg than chate me out of me honest dues.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1873, author=Various, title=The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=But they'll murdher my boy when they find out the chate ," said Mrs. Rooney. "}}

Noun

(en noun)

(Scotland) Cheat.

* {{quote-book, year=1885, author=Grace Greenwood, title=Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=With that, he began to swear and call me a chate , and threaten me with the police.}}

* {{quote-book, year=, author=Mayne Reid, title=The Ocean Waifs, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=That there's been chatin' yez are all agreed; only yez can't identify the chate .}} ----