"chimley" meaning in English

See chimley in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɪmli/, /ˈtʃɪmli/ [Northumbria] Forms: chimleys [plural], chimly [alternative]
Etymology: By dissimilation of mn to ml. Head templates: {{en-noun}} chimley (plural chimleys)
  1. (UK, dialect, New England, Appalachia, Caribbean) Alternative form of chimney. Tags: Appalachia, Caribbean, New-England, UK, alt-of, alternative, dialectal Alternative form of: chimney

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_text": "By dissimilation of mn to ml.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chimleys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chimly",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chimley (plural chimleys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "chimney"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Appalachian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Caribbean English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "New England English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              247,
              254
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1831 August 11, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, page 4, column 1:",
          "text": "There was, as I was observing, betewkst 49 or 50 of us in the two rooms, very pleasant and neighbour-like together, taking a tumbler of punch to sarve Nick Moran's new house, I mean the new ould house, bekase he had to buy windy's and to put up a chimley.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              79,
              86
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1899, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading:",
          "text": "\"Mr. Gibbs come in just now,\" said Mrs. Blewett, \"and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              73,
              80
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 106:",
          "text": "‘She bloodywell must believe in Santa Claus the way she hangs round that chimley.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of chimney."
      ],
      "id": "en-chimley-en-noun-1PwbJC2l",
      "links": [
        [
          "chimney",
          "chimney#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, dialect, New England, Appalachia, Caribbean) Alternative form of chimney."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Appalachia",
        "Caribbean",
        "New-England",
        "UK",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃɪmli/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtʃɪmli/",
      "tags": [
        "Northumbria"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chimley"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "By dissimilation of mn to ml.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chimleys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chimly",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chimley (plural chimleys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "chimney"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Appalachian English",
        "British English",
        "Caribbean English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "New England English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              247,
              254
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1831 August 11, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, page 4, column 1:",
          "text": "There was, as I was observing, betewkst 49 or 50 of us in the two rooms, very pleasant and neighbour-like together, taking a tumbler of punch to sarve Nick Moran's new house, I mean the new ould house, bekase he had to buy windy's and to put up a chimley.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              79,
              86
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1899, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading:",
          "text": "\"Mr. Gibbs come in just now,\" said Mrs. Blewett, \"and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              73,
              80
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 106:",
          "text": "‘She bloodywell must believe in Santa Claus the way she hangs round that chimley.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of chimney."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chimney",
          "chimney#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, dialect, New England, Appalachia, Caribbean) Alternative form of chimney."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Appalachia",
        "Caribbean",
        "New-England",
        "UK",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃɪmli/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtʃɪmli/",
      "tags": [
        "Northumbria"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chimley"
}

Download raw JSONL data for chimley meaning in English (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.