Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Persistent chatter or talk.
Examples
“But now I realize that that wasn't the point, we have to serve misinformation scathing "chin-music" whenever we are encountered with it.”
“Then the 102mph chin-music.... and the John Kruk jelly-knees... and a reorientation of priorities.”
“Blood is blood, and nature's nature, and passion's passion, and gew-gaws don't count -- no, nor polite chin-music either.”
“A little chin-music from your oncle 'Arry shall finish it!”
“He never lets up -- keeps his chin-music goin 'right along when he's asleep, only worse.”
“I've jes 'blew in fur a trifle of chin-music," replied Hervey with an emphatic U.S.A. accent.”
“I thought 'twas only chin-music she was givin 'me.”
“Of course, I'm awfully obliged to you for making that chin-music to her of evenings.”
“So it appears that chin-music without charity is not calculated to pay very large dividends in the interesting ultimate; that a man may be full of faith, and pregnant with prophecy, and chock-a-block with knowledge and redolent of religious mystery, -- that he may leak sanctification in the musical accents of an angel and still be "nothing" -- a pitiful hole in the atmosphere, a chimera circulating in a vacuum and foolishly imagining itself a man.”
“That's so, only it was later in the evening that the woman came along to give chin-music through the window.”
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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hernesheir Let us not be overly guilty of this. Dec 4, 2010