Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young man; a fellow: used in either a good or a bad sense.
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- noun Alternative form of
chield .
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Examples
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The "chiel" among the agriculturists "taking notes" will be more likely to seduce than to warn; and if the record of his eventual triumphs be received as gospel truth, we must expect a vast emigration of the men of mind from the cities to the country.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various
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My second "chiel" will take notes to the effect that while a friendly game of pinochle was in progress in the tenement rooms of Mrs. Andy
Rolling Stones O. Henry 1886
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He did not think that a "chiel" was near, "taking notes," and will, doubtless, feel quite angry at having his character touched off in the ragged style of a slave's pen.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1856
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He did not think that a "chiel" was near, "taking notes," and will, doubtless, feel quite angry at having his character touched off in the ragged style of a slave's pen.
My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith. 1855
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He did not think that a "chiel" was near, "taking notes," and will, doubtless, feel quite angry at having his character touched off in the ragged style of a slave's pen.
My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman 1850
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If you will but look with that bonnie smile on the handsome chiel, who is to be here the day, you will do his business.
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I had no idea a chiel was taking notes down at quiet
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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And ‘a told me that ‘a had it from his father when he was quite a chiel, who made use o’ en just the same at every killing more or less; and pig-killings were pig-killings in those days.’
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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“What wonderful odds and ends that chiel has in his head to be sure!”
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For there were a chiel cam ower the field, he min't ye on a arra '
Sheelicks 1996
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