subs. (American thieves’).—A child. [? A corruption of kinchin.]
Verb (American).—1. To talk; to chatter.
1883. Bread-winners (1884), 161. You haven’t done a thing but … eat pea nuts and hear Bott CHIN. [M.]
1887. New York World. They CHIN about the best methods of relieving poverty. [M.]
1887. F. FRANCIS, Jun., Saddle and Moccasin, x. 185. There was not very much of him, but what there was, was tough and of good material; he was a “worker;” he bore his years lightly, and liked nothing better than to get into a circle of young cow-punchers, and CHIN and josh with them in his funereal fashion, as though he were their contemporary.
2. To talk or act with brazen effrontery.
