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SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY. 4!

CHECKY PIG, sb. a child's name for a pig.

CHEENEY, sb. china ware.

CHEESE, sb. the seeds of the marsh mallow.

CHENEY ROW, sb. a place in Sheffield, so called after Mr. Cheney, surgeon, who lived there.

CHILDER, sb.pl children.

' Shoo's enuff to do to tak care at childer. ' Bywater^ 250.

CHILDERMAS DAY, sb. the Feast of the Innocents. Hunter's MS.

CHIMLEY, sb. a chimney. Sometimes called a chimbley. 'Wot noist chimla ornaments !' By/water, 165.

CHIN COUGH, sb. the hooping cough. Hunter writes it chink-cough.

CHINNY-MUMPS, sb.pl. 'a school boy's play, consisting in striking the chin with the knuckles; dexterously performed, a kind of time is produced.' Hunter's MS. It also means a throat malady.

CHIP, v. to chap, as the hands do in cold weather.

CHIST, sb. a chest.

' Put into the chyste, xls.' T. T. A. Lat. cista.

CHITLINGS, sb. pi. the small entrails of an animal.

W. I. of Norton, a very fat man, nicknamed Bummell, used to beg the chit lings of pigs. These he took down Mow/a lane and washed them in a dyke. He then brought them home, and, having washed them in lime and water, ate them. He said this food was delicious. In a history of Durham by Robert de Greystanes (Surtees Soc., vol. ix.), a curious account is given of the mother of a bishop whose delight it was to belabour the heads of her hand- maids with chitterlings which she had just washed in a stream. See ' Latin Story ' in Notes and Queries, 7th S. iii. 386.

CHIZEN [cheizen], v. to munch or chew.

CHIZZLE, v. to cheat.

This word occurs as jewsle in Evans' Leicestershire Words (E. D. S.).

CHOCK, sb. a thick, rectangular block of wood, used in building up a strong support for the roof in coal-mining.

CHOCK, sb. a wedge for fastening a cart to the shafts. CHOCK-FULL, adv. quite full.