Meanings
nounchessy cat (plural chessy cats)
plural chessy cats
- USslangA Cheshire cat.
I looked fearfully over my shoulder and there was TwoBit, grinning like a Chessy cat.
1967, S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders1 more example
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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