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.
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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.
christian sharia
Dominionism
christianity into that island
Moore has a poem on the subject in his Irish Melodies.
Christians of St
Thomas. There are said to have been in the southern parts of Malabar some 200,000 persons who called themselves "Christians of St. Thomas" when Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498.
Christmas box
A small gratuity given on Boxing Day (the day after Christmas Day). Boxes placed in churches for casual offerings used to be opened on Christmas Day, and the contents, called the "dole of the Christmas box," or the "box money," were distributed next day by the priests. Apprentices used, also, to carry a box round to their masters' customers for small gratuities.
Christmas cards
These are of compara- tively recent origin, the earliest having, it is said, been designed in 1844 by W. C. T. Dobson, R.A., a painter of pretty works of that nature.
Christmas come early
An event happens sooner than expected
Christmas comes but once a year
One should enjoy and indulge during special occasions
christmas compliments
A cough, kibed heels, and a snotty nose.
Christmas decorations
The great feast of Saturn was held in December, when the people decorated the temples with such green things as they could find. The Christian 'custom is the same transferred to Him who was born in Bethlehem on Christmas Day. The holly or holy-tree is called Christ's-thorn in Germany and Scandinavia, from its use in church decorations and its putting forth its berries about Christmas time.
Christmas graduate
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Christmas tree bill
A bill overloaded with unnecessary amendments
Christopher Croker
Famous at the siege of Bordeaux, and companion of the Black Prince when he helped Bon Pedro to the throne of Castile.
Christy Minstrels
For many years the mid- Victorian publics of London and New York were entertained and delighted by the troupe of black-faced minstrels organized by an American, Edwin Christy (1815-62). To the accompaniment of various stage-negro antics they sang plantation songs and cracked innocent jokes with Bones, Sambo, and the rest. They were succeeded by the Moore and Burgess, and other troupes of the same genre.
chrome
handguns
chrome dome
A bald or partially bald person
chrome horn
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
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