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chats
Chatham.
chats
Lice, or body vermin. Prov., any small things of the same kind.
chatter box
One whose tongue runs twelve score to the dozen, a chattering man or woman.
chatter broth
Tea. See CAT LAP and SCANDAL BROTH.
chatter-basket
Common term for a prattling child amongst nurses.
chatter-box
An incessant talker or chatterer.
chatterton betrayed his forgeries
He wrote in a poem purporting to be the work of a 15th- century priest, "Life and its goods I scorn," but the word was not in use till more than two centuries later than his supposed time, it (hit) and his being the possessive case.
chatts
Lice: perhaps an abbreviation of chattels, lice being the chief live stock of chattels of beggars, gypsies, and the rest of the canting crew. CANT.--Also, according to the canting academy, the gallows.
chatty
A filthy person, one whose clothes are not free from vermin; CHATTY DOSS, a lousy bed. A CHATTY DOSSER or a CRUMMY DOSSER is a filthy tramp or houseless wanderer.
Chatty G
ChatGPT.
chaunt
To sing the contents of any paper in the streets. CANT, as applied to vulgar language, may have been derived from CHAUNT.
chaunter culls
Grub-street writers, who compose songs, carrols, &c. for ballad-singers. CANT.
chaunters
Those street sellers of ballads, last copies of verses, and other broadsheets, who sang or bawled the contents of their papers. They often termed themselves PAPER WORKERS. Cheap evening papers and private executions have together combined to improve these folks’ occupations off the face of the earth. See HORSE-CHAUNTERS.
chaw
To steal.
chaw
To chew; CHAW UP, to get the better of one, finish him up; CHAWED UP, utterly done for.
chaw bacon
A countryman. A stupid fellow.
chaw over
To repeat one’s words with a view to ridicule.
chaw-bacon
A rustic. Derived from the popular idea that a countryman lives entirely on bread and fat bacon. A country clown, a joskin, a yokel, a clodcrusher. These terms are all exchangeable.
chazzer
A pig.
cheap
"doing it on the CHEAP," living economically, or keeping up a showy appearance with very little means.
Cheap as a Sardinian
A Roman phrase referring to the great crowds of Sardinian prisoners brought to Rome by Tiberius Gracchus, and offered for sale at almost any price.
cheap drunk
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
cheap jack
A travelling vendor of small wares, who is usually ready to "cheapen" his goods, Le. take less for them than the price he first named.
cheap jacks
Or JOHNS, oratorical hucksters and patterers of hardware, who put an article up at a high price, and then cheapen it by degrees, indulging all the time in volleys of coarse wit, until it becomes to all appearance a bargain, and as such it is bought by one of the crowd. The popular idea is that the inverse method of auctioneering saves them paying for the auction licence.—See DUTCH AUCTION.
cheap thrill
A brief, exciting experience that is not expensive or meaningful
cheap-arse Tuesday
a day for affordable entertainment or activities
cheaper by the dozen
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
cheapside
He came at it by way of Cheapside; he gave little or nothing for it, he bought it cheap.
cheapside bargain
A weak pun, meaning that the article was bought cheap or under its market value. Cheapside, is on the south side of the Cheap (or Chepe), one of the principal market-places of Old London, so called from A.S. ceapian* to buy, cypan, to sell, ceap, a price or sale.
cheat on
To be unfaithful to someone in a relationship
cheat sheet
A concise guide or reference aid
cheating the devil
Mincing an oath; doing evil for gain, and giving part of the profits to the Church, etc. In a literal sense, cheating the devil is by no means unusual m monkish traditions. Thus the "Devils' Bridge," over the Fall of the Reuss, in the canton of the Uri, Switzerland, is a single arch over a cataract.
cheats
Sham sleeves to put over a dirty shift or shirt. See SHAMS.
cheats never prosper
Dishonest people will ultimately fail
check and balance
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
check is in the mail
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
check out of something
to leave or stop participating in something
check somebody out
Investigate or observe someone to learn more about them
check something in
Examine or verify something
check the math
Verify the calculation or logic
check through
Examine or review something carefully
checkered past
A history of questionable or controversial behavior
checks
Counters used in games at cards. In the Pacific States of America a man who is dead is said to have handed (or passed) in his checks. The gamblers there are responsible for many of the colloquialisms current.
checks and balances
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
checkup from the neck up
A mental health examination
chee
A cheetah.
chee-chee
This word is used in a rather offensive manner to denote Eurasians, or children by an English father and native mother. It takes its origin in a very common expression of half-caste females, "CHEE-CHEE," equivalent to our Oh, fie!—Nonsense!—For shame!—Anglo-Indian.
cheeba
Marijuana.
cheek
Share or portion; "where’s my CHEEK?" where is my allowance? "All to his own CHEEK," all to himself.
cheek for chowl
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
cheeks
Ass; sex.
cheeks
Ask cheeks near cunnyborough; the repartee of a St. Gilse's fair one, who bids you ask her backside, anglice her a-se. A like answer is current in France: any one asking the road or distance to Macon, a city near Lyons, would be answered by a French lady of easy virtue, 'Mettez votre nez dans mon cul, & vous serrez dans les Fauxbourgs.'
cheeky monkey
A mischievous or playful person
cheer up
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
cheese
Anything good, first-rate in quality, genuine, pleasant, or advantageous, is termed the CHEESE. The London Guide, 1818, says it was from some young fellows translating "c’est une autre CHOSE" into "that is another CHEESE." But the expression CHEESE may be found in the Gipsy vocabulary, and in the Hindostanee and Persian languages. In the last CHIZ means a thing—that is the thing, i.e., the CHEESE.
cheese grater
A waiter.
cheese off
To annoy.
cheese tax
a fee or tax perceived as unfair or excessive
cheese, wine, and friends must be old to be good
Good things improve with age and experience
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