chore

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a routine or tedious task, especially a household one

   Washing the dishes is the chore he dreads most.

Simplified etymology

Chore, recorded from the mid-18th century, is a variant of the obsolete char or chare, meaning “a turn of work” or “an odd job.”

A variant of obsolete chare/char ('a turn of work, an odd job'), from Old English cierr ('turn, occasion, affair'), from cierran ('to turn').

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