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Chill

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1983, OED Evaluation: N. Amer. slang.

Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.

ExampleMeaning
And then I have my other- like another manager who is- she's super chill and she's su-- like she'll buy us Timmies and she'll let us go do whatever we want- like we're allowed to like just chill instead of like worrying and-stuff-like-that about what like making the store look good all the time.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
Ah yeah and then I have another manager who's pretty chill too, but other than that- like it just- it sucks going to work 'cause I never know which manager is working.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
ExampleMeaning
Um yeah, it was pretty chill.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
ExampleMeaning
You-know, just a- just a few of us and we had two- two or three bottles of it and you-know we were just going to have a chill night and just to try it 'cause we all wanted to try it when- when we heard of it.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
ExampleMeaning
He's pretty chill.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
ExampleMeaning
Other times they're really chill though, like you can pet them.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
ExampleMeaning
Yeah, he's my favourite. I-don't-know, he's just so relax and chill about everything.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
ExampleMeaning
What no? Um, my parents are actually very, very chill, very chill. Um, they are- they discipline when discipline needs to, but like they're pretty much like they're not like, "Don't go out of the house blah-blah-blah," you-know?
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
They're so chill, they're funny. You would get along with my dad.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
Um, so normally I have a hockey game in the afternoon, one or two on Saturday and then Sunday, I- it's normally just a chill day so I normally like go out Saturday night, you-know, get my freak on (laughs).
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
ExampleMeaning
My age is more- hell of a lot more chill than those guys were back in the day.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
ExampleMeaning
And be able to, I-guess, be more understanding and laid back when it comes to dealing with different people that we're all pretty chill-
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
ExampleMeaning
But I-don't-know, our school's- our school was pretty cool, like the teachers are- are pretty- are pretty- chill, and they don't- they don't really- they don't really give us too much trouble.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.

Chinker

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Ah, well this is a log building- these are other- this is a log building that's going to be a chinker but it isn't finished but- Interviewer: What is a chinker? Speaker: Ah, instead of being sc-- fit so tightly that just insulation is between the logs- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: There's actually a gap left and you plaster that with cement. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Yeah, so you don't fit them. You don't spend as much time fitting them but you have to spend the time after sealing them off-
A type of building insulation construction

Chint

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Exactly, but we go into the change room for that but then after- but then some- some like arenas when I was younger didn't even have girls change room and I'd have to get changed in the bathroom, into my hockey- Interviewer: Aw. Speaker: Gear. Yeah, people were chints man.
Some sort of derogatory term for people.

Chintzy

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1851, OED Evaluation: N/A

suburban, unfashionable, petit-bourgeois, cheap; mean, stingy.

ExampleMeaning
Because I collect dragon statues, and I have a lot of little chintzy ones from the dollar store that people see and go, "Oh you collect these, so I bought eight of them for you, they are a set, they cost eight dollars."
Small, petty

Chirp

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1440, OED Evaluation: N.A

To utter the short sharp thin sound proper to some small birds and certain insects.

ExampleMeaning
'Cause it was like one hockey team chirping and the other hockey team that was playing- a team from here.
Insulting.
So we were all just kind of chirping the other team.
Insulting.
He started chirping small town boys saying he was like a city boy and this stuff.
Insulting.
ExampleMeaning
Chirping. Which most parents are saying, you-know "Go to school, go to school, go to school, go to school!" And she's telling me that, you-know I'm crazy.
Insulting.