chill
To warm, as beer. This at first seems like reversing the order of things, but it is only a contraction of "take the CHILL off."
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chimney chops
An abusive appellation for a negro.
chimney-sweep
The aperient mixture commonly called a black draught.
chin-chin
A salutation, a compliment.—Anglo-Chinese.
chin-wag
Officious impertinence.
chink
Or CHINKERS, money.—Ancient. Derivation obvious.
chip
A child. A chip of the old block; a child who either in person or sentiments resembles its father or mother.
chip of the old block
A child which physically or morally resembles its father. BROTHER CHIP, one of the same trade or profession. Originally brother carpenter, now general.
chips
Money; also a nickname for a carpenter.—Sea.
chirp
To give information, to "peach."
chirping merry
Exhilarated with liquor. Chirping glass, a cheerful glass, that makes the company chirp like birds in spring.
chisel
To cheat, to take a slice off anything. Hence the old conundrum: "Why is a carpenter like a swindler?—Because he chisels a deal."
chit
A letter; corruption of a Hindoo word.—Anglo-Indian.
chitterlings
The shirt frills once fashionable and worn still by ancient beaux; properly the entrails of a pig, to which they are supposed to bear some resemblance. Belgian SCHYTERLINGH.
chitterlins
The bowels. There is a rumpus among my bowels, i.e. I have the colic. The frill of a shirt.
chitty-faced
Baby-faced; said of one who has a childish look.
chivalry
Coition. Probably a corruption from the Lingua Franca. Perhaps from CHEVAULCHER.
chive
Or CHIVEY, a shout, a halloo, or cheer; loud tongued. Probably from CHEVY-CHASE, a boy’s game, in which the word CHEVY is bawled aloud. Dickens uses the word CHIVEY in Bleak House rather freely, but there it is from the other phase of CHEVY-CHASE which follows.
chive-fencer
A street hawker of cutlery.
chivey
I gave him a good chivey; I gave him, a hearty
chivey
To chase round, or hunt about. Apparently from CHEVY-CHASE.—See above.
chiving lay
Cutting the braces of coaches behind, on which the coachman quitting the box, an accomplice robs the boot; also, formerly, cutting the back of the coach to steal the fine large wigs then worn.
choak
Choak away, the churchyard's near; a jocular saying to a person taken with a violent fit of coughing, or who has swallowed any thing, as it is called the wrong way; Choak, chicken, more are hatching: a like consolation.
choak pear
Figuratively, an unanswerable objection: also a machine formerly used in Holland by robbers; it was of iron, shaped like a pear; this they forced into the mouths of persons from whom they intended to extort money; and on turning a key, certain interior springs thrust forth a number of points, in all directions, which so enlarged it, that it could not be taken out of the mouth: and the iron, being case-hardened, could not be filed: the only methods of getting rid of it, were either by cutting the
choakee
Or CHOKEY, the black hole.—Military Anglo-Indian. Chokey is also very vulgar slang for prison.
chock-full
Full till the scale comes down with a shock. Originally CHOKE-FULL, and used in reference to theatres and places of amusement.
chocolate
To give chocolate without sugar; to reprove. MILITARY TERM.
choice spirit
A thoughtless, laughing, singing, drunken fellow.
choke off
to stop or suppress something
choker
A cravat, a neckerchief. WHITE-CHOKER, the white neckerchief worn by mutes at a funeral, waiters at a tavern, and gentlemen in evening costume. Clergymen and Exeter Hallites are frequently termed WHITE-CHOKERS.
chonkeys
A kind of mincemeat, baked in a crust, and sold in the streets.
choops
A corruption of CHOOPRAHO, keep silence.—Anglo-Indian.
chootah
Small, insignificant.—Anglo-Indian.
chop
A blow. Boxing term.
chop
In the Canton jargon of Anglo-Chinese, this word has several significations. It means an official seal, a permit, a boat load of teas. FIRST CHOP signifies first quality; and CHOP-CHOP, to make haste.
chop churches
Simoniacal dealers in livings, or other ecclesiastical preferments.
chopping, lusty
A chopping boy or girl; a lusty child.
chops
The mouth. I gave him a wherrit, or a souse, across the chops; I gave him a blow over the mouth, See WHERRIT.
chops
Properly CHAPS, the mouth, or cheeks; "down in the CHOPS," or "down in the mouth," i.e., sad or melancholy.
chouder
A sea-dish, composed of fresh fish, salt pork, herbs, and sea-biscuits, laid in different layers, and stewed together.
chouse
To cheat out of one’s share or portion. Hackluyt, CHAUS; Massinger, CHIAUS. From the Turkish, in which language it signifies an interpreter. Gifford gives a curious story as to its origin:—
chout
An entertainment.—East-end of London.
chovey
A shop.—Costermonger.
chow-chow
A mixture, food of any kind. Also chit-chat and gossip.—Anglo-Chinese.
chowdar
A fool.—Anglo-Chinese.
christ-cross row
The alphabet in a horn-book: called Christ-cross Row, from having, as an Irishman observed, Christ's cross PREFIXED before and AFTER the twenty-four letters.
christening
Erasing the name of the true maker from a stolen watch, and engraving a fictitious one in its place.
christening
Erasing the name of the maker, the number, or any other mark, from a stolen watch, and inserting a fictitious one in its place.
christian
A tradesman who has faith, i.e. will give credit.
christmas compliments
A cough, kibed heels, and a snotty nose.
chub
He is a young chub, or a mere chub; i.e. a foolish fellow, easily imposed on: an illusion to a fish of that name, easily taken.
chubby
Round-faced, plump. Probably from the same derivative as CHUB, which means literally a fish with a big head.
chuck
My chuck; a term of endearment.
chuck
Bread or meat; in fact, anything to eat. Also a particular kind of beefsteak.
chuck a jolly
To bear up or bonnet, as when a costermonger praises the inferior article his mate or partner is trying to sell. See CHI-IKE.
chuck a stall
To attract a person’s attention while a confederate picks his pockets, or otherwise robs him.
chuckle-head
Much the same as "buffle head," "cabbage head," "chowder head," "cod’s head,"—all signifying that large abnormal form of skull generally supposed to accompany stupidity and weakness of intellect; as the Scotch proverb, "muckle head and little wit."—Originally Devonshire, but now general.
chuckle-headed
Stupid, thick-headed.
chucks!
Schoolboy’s signal on the master’s approach.
chuff it
I.e., be off, or take it away, in answer to a street seller who is importuning you to purchase. Halliwell mentions CHUFF as a "term of reproach," surly, &c.