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
I thocht I was my lief alane, But turnin', near me stood a man, A strappin' chiel, wi' clubs in han',— Lean-shankit, extra tall and spare, Wi' goatee beard and jet-black hair.
From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Violet Flint
Baird's mother, on hearing that her son and other prisoners were in fetters, is said to have remarked, "God help the chiel chained to poor Davie."
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
"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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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