chive-fencer
A street hawker of cutlery.
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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.
chocolate starfish
The anus.
chocolate teapot
Something completely useless
choda
Bastard, son of a bitch.
choice spirit
A thoughtless, laughing, singing, drunken fellow.
choice spirit of the age
Figuratively used for a gallant of the day; one who delights to exaggerate the whims of fashion.
choke off
to stop or suppress something
choke the chicken
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
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.
chomp at the bit
To be impatient or eager to start something
chomp down on
To eat (something); to bite (something).
chonkeys
A kind of mincemeat, baked in a crust, and sold in the streets.
choof
Marijuana.
choops
Keep quiet.
choops
A corruption of CHOOPRAHO, keep silence.—Anglo-Indian.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. (Strauss, 1994 p. 655)
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
choose one's fighter
Select someone to support or identify with
choose to do something
Decide to perform an action
choose up
to select teams or partners
choose violence
to deliberately cause or escalate conflict
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.
chop down
to completely destroy or eliminate something
chop house
An eating-house where chops and steaks are served. I dine at the Chop-House three days a week, where the good company wonders they never see you of late.— STEELE: Spectator, No. 308 (22 Feb., 1712).
chopped liver
completely unimportant or irrelevant
choppers
chopsticks
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.
Chops of the Channel
The short broken motion of the waves, experienced in crossing the English Channel; also the place where such motion occurs. In this use, however, the word may be chops, the jaw (see below), be- cause the Chops of the Channel is an old and well-understood term for the entrance to the Channel from the Atlantic.
chopstick land
China.
Choriambic Metre
Horace gives us a great variety, but the main feature in all is the
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 hall
mess hall
chow-chow
A mixture, food of any kind. Also chit-chat and gossip.—Anglo-Chinese.
chowchow
Gossip.
chowdar
A fool.—Anglo-Chinese.
chrissie
Christmas
chrissy
Christmas
Christ was invested
(Matt, xxvii, 28.) They flung on him an old scarlet paludamentum — some cast-off war-cloak with its purple laticlave from the Praetorian wardrobe. — FAKRAR: Life of Christ, ch. Ix.
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.
Christi Day
They began in Pateinoster Row with the Lord's Prayer in Latin, which was continued to the end of the street; then said Amen, at the corner or bottom of the Row; then turning down Ave Maria Lane, com- menced chanting the "Hail, Mary!" then crossing Ludgate, entered Creed Lane chant- ing the Credo.
christian
A tradesman who has faith, i.e. will give credit.
Christian Brothers
A secret society formed in London in the early 16th century to distri- bute the New Testament in English. The name is now better known as that of the teaching congregation of laymen, founded in 1684 by St. John Baptist de la Salle.
christian creed
The Brahmins represent their §od with three heads; the world was supposed y the ancients to be under the rule of three gods, viz.
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