Meanings
- informaluncountablechaos
One's for ever in a state of choss or chassis and I hate it.
1968, Doreen Wallace, Ashbury People, →ISBN, page 3142 more examples
With a 'begging your pardon, miss,' to a stoically resigned Elstow, he went on, 'I take the mum and dad back to Paphos for a month, and when I gets back, the office is in a right state of choss. A right boss-eyed state of choss.'
1981, James Barnett, The firing squad, →ISBN, page 189We have been in a state of choss for some time, and the smell of newly painted woodwork was so bad that it gave both of us colds and bronchial coughs and sent us to the Biltmore for a week until the house had dried out.
1986, Margaret Mitchell, Richard Barksdale Harwell, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936–1949, →ISBN, page 173
Origin
A colloquial form of chaos.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Russian развальня
- развальня (razvalʹnja)rock that is unsuitable for rock climbing, e.g. because it is too soft, unstable, or overgrown
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