chiel
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of chiel
C14: a Scot variant of child
Example Sentences
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Yes of course I am as jocund and elated as the next chiel at the success of Andy Murray and Chris Hoy and all those nice rowers and sailors.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2012
According to plan, she had mined England's chiel colonial ports, including Singapore.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Rise! there's a chiel here, that wants ye to gang wi' him."
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Dundas is pretty well forgotten by this time: probably he will by and by be remembered solely by Burns's description of him: That slee, auld-farrant chiel Dundas.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner
Thus relieved, the doctor recovered his feet; but he was—as Elspeth described him in a communication made not long after—"a sair lookin' chiel!"
From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Morford, Henry
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