chimbley

plural chimbleys · alternative chimley · alternative chimbly

1. CaribbeanUKalternativedialectalAlternative form of chimney.

   Golden lad and chimbley sweep Die; and so their song shall keep.

   1936, Dorothy Parker, “Lines on Reading Too Many Poets”, in The collected poetry of Dorothy Parker, page 180

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   My gun? — up stairs. What d'ye want with the gun? Cook. Oh laws, sir? if it was to be shot off up the chimbley, it would surely put it out.

   28 Jul 1828, The Australian, Sydney, page 3, column 2

   He was, as usual, gittin' an wid his nonsinse an' baldherdash about the fairies, [...] whin an ould woman called Mary Hogan wid a long blue cloak about her, that was sittin' in the chimbly corner smokin' her pipe widout takin' the laste share in the conversation, tuk the pipe out o' her mouth, an' threw the ashes out o' it, an' spit in the fire, an' turnin' round, luked Failey straight in the face. "An' so you don't b'lieve there's sich things as Leprechauns, don't ye?" sed she.

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 377