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Jennings, James

"The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire"


ChaA-ty. _adj_. Careful; nice; delicate.
To Cham. _v. a._ To chew.
ChAimer. _s._ A chamber.
Change, _s._ A shift; the garment worn by females next the
skin.
Chay'er. _s._ A chair; chayer--_Chaucer_.
Chick-a-beedy. _s._ A chick.
'Chill. I will.
Chim'ley. _s._ A chimney.
Chine. _s._ The prominence of the staves beyond the head of a
cask. This word is well known to coopers throughout England, and
ought to be in our dictionaries.
To Chis'som. _v. n._ To bud; to shoot out.
Chis'som. _s._ a small shoot; a budding out.
Chit'terlins. _s. pl._ The frills around the bosom of shirt.
Choor. _s._ A job; any dirty household work; a troublesome
job.
Choor'er, Choor'-woman. _s._ A woman who goes out to do any
kind of odd and dirty work; hence the term _char-woman_ in
our polished dialect; but it ought to be _choor-woman_.
To ChoA ry. _v._ To do any kind of dirty household work.
Chub'by. _adj._ Full, swelling; as _chubby-faced_.
Claps, _s._ A clasp.
To claps, _v.


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