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  • cheek somebody up
    [cf. OED cheek, Scots cheek up idem CSD) v.phr. to be impertinent to somebody. (Eleu.)
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  • chee-chee
    (Mayag., Inagua); chim-chim (Nassau) [cf. DJE chichi bud (imitative) a singing bird cf. also Yoruba tintin sp. of small song
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  • checkerboard
    [see quot.] n. 1. the wool sponge: 1977 The hookers nicknamed them checker­boards because white reef sediment sifted over them like
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  • check (2) or cheque
    [cf. DJE checks a small piece; OED chequeen, an old gold coin of Italy, pace Craton, seems an unlikely source given its
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  • check (1)
    [cf. Scots chack of the teeth: to chatter with cold CSD] n. a chill; a cold contracted from exposure: 1936
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  • Cheap John Stirrup
    ["The name is an excellent rendering of the bird's song" (Bond p.c.)] n. a bird, the black-whiskered vireo (Vireo altiloquus):
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  • cheap
    [cf. Jam. just as cheap equally well: "I had just as cheap go as stay" DJE II; cf. OED cheap costing
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  • chaw
    [OED very common in 16-17th c ... now esteemed vulgar; also Brit., US dial.] v. to chew: 1918 Chawfine, chew him up!
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  • chatty
    /cháti/ n. 1. [OED "Anglo-Ind. (Hindi charti earthen vessel) pot for water", DHS idem; Hindi is not an unlikely source, given the movements of the
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  • chat-chat
    [Car. to gossip continually DJE] n. a very talkative person; a gossip. (Exuma, Mayag.)
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