dial. To cheep. Hence Cheeter.
1883. Gloss. Almondb. & Huddersf., 24. Birds cheet, and it is said specially of a robin as winter approaches…. If shoes cheet, they are supposed not to have been paid for. Young pigeons are … called cheeters in Yorkshire. [Erroneously attributed by Webster, and others from him, to Tennyson who uses cheep.]
