Chop. A blow. Boxing term.
To chop and change. To exchange
backwards and forwards.
To chop, in the canting sense, means making
dispatch, or hurrying over any business:
ex. The autem
bawler will soon quit the hums,
for he chops up the WHINERS;
the parson will soon quit the pulpit,
for he hurries over
the prayers. See autem bawler,
hums, and WHINERS,
Chop churches. Simoniacal dealers in
livings, or other
ecclesiastical preferments.
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.
Chop-stick. A fork.
CHOUDER. A sea-dish, composed of fresh fish,
salt pork,
herbs, and sea-biscuits, laid in different
layers, and stewed
together.
To Chouse. To cheat or trick:
he choused me out of it.
Chouse is also the term for a game like
chuck-farthing.
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.
Christian poney. A chairman.
Christian. A tradesman who has faith, i.e. will give credit.
Christmas compliments. A cough, kibed heels, and a snotty nose.
Chub. He is a young chub, or a mere chub;
i.e. a foolish
fellow, easily imposed on: an illusion
to a fish of that
name, easily taken.
Chubby. Round-faced, plump.
Chuck. My chuck; a term of endearment.
Chuck farthing. A parish clerk.
Chuckle-headed. Stupid, thick-headed.
Chuffy. Round-faced, chubby.
Chum. A chamber-fellow, particularly at
the universities
and in prison.
CHUMMAGE. Money paid by the richer sort of prisoners
in the Fleet and King’s Bench, to
the poorer, for their
share of a room. When prisons are
very full, which is
too often the case, particularly on the
eve of an insolvent
act, two or three persons are obliged
to sleep in a room. A
prisoner who can pay for being alone,
chuses two poor
chums, who for a stipulated price, called
chummage,
give up their share of the room, and sleep
on the stairs,
or, as the term is, ruff it.
Chunk. Among printers, a journeyman who
refuses to
work for legal wages; the same as the
flint among taylors.
See flint.


