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chessy cat en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (US, slang) A Cheshire cat.
    • I looked fearfully over my shoulder and there was TwoBit, grinning like a Chessy cat. 1967, S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders:
    • She felt like slapping some of them for sitting around grinning at her like a pack of chessy cats, trying to make out they looked like love. 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 90:

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