Chatter broth.  Tea.  See cat lap and scandal broth.

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.

CHATES.  The gallows.  Cant.

CHAUNTER culls.  Grub-street writers, who compose
  songs, carrols, &c. for ballad-singers.  Cant.

Chaunt.  A song.

To chaunt.  To sing.  To publish an account in the newspapers. 
  The kiddey was chaunted for a toby; his examination
  concerning a highway robbery was published in
  the papers.

Chaw bacon.  A countryman.  A stupid fellow.

Cheapside.  He came at it by way of Cheapside; he gave
  little or nothing for it, he bought it cheap.

Cheats.  Sham sleeves to put over a dirty shift or shirt. 
  See Shams.

Cheek by jowl.  Side by side, hand to fist.

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.’

Cheese-toaster.  A sword.

Cheese it; Be silent, be quiet, don’t do it.  Cheese it, the
  coves are fly; be silent, the people understand our discourse.

CHEESER.  A strong smelling fart.

Chelsea.  A village near London, famous for the military
  hospital.  To get Chelsea; to obtain the benefit of that
  hospital.  Dead Chelsea, by G-d! an exclamation uttered by
  a grenadier at Fontenoy, on having his leg carried away by
  a cannon-ball.

Chest of tools.  A shoe-black’s brush and wig, &c.  Irish.

Cherry-coloured cat.  A black cat, there being black
  cherries as well as red.

CHERUBIMS. Peevish children, becausecherubimsand seraphims
  continually do cry.

Cheshire cat.  He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of anyone
  who shews his teeth and gums in laughing.

Chick-A-Biddy.  A chicken, so called to and by little children.

Chicken-breasted. Said of a woman with scarce any breasts.

Chicken butcher.  A poulterer.

Chicken-Hammed. Persons whose legs and thighs are bent
  or archward outwards.

Chicken-hearted. Fearful, cowardly.

Chicken nabob.  One returned from the East Indies with but
  a moderate fortune of fifty or sixty thousand pounds, a
  diminutive nabob:  a term borrowed from the chicken turtle.