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- noun southern US, African American Vernacular Plural form of
chile (child).
Etymologies
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Examples
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The mother of the chillun was a good lady an 'she let me look on the books when she read to them an' larned me the lessons 'long with her chillun.
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Dey teached me to call chillun three years old, young Marse and say
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"Thank you, Miss; Madison 'll stand true to Miss Letitia, an' true to ole maus 'chillun', an 'true to de ole plantation."
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Her large philosophy of life held that all human beings were "chillun," and "chillun was bound to act bad sometimes."
Sandy Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906
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"Grandma, don't come crying to me if you've got Imran and Mohammad as your next door neighbours wailing into the early hours, and I don't want to hear about the drug deals going on in your neatly-cut front garden, your pretty blonde daughters being gang-raped by local 'chillun', or you wake up in the morning to the sound of your hub caps being pilfered.
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He don't think as a chillun you had the right male influence. or oh,. opps thats me that thinks you have your genders mixed up.
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I rang Professor Boylan and organised to meet him after skyping home to chat with the chillun.
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Okay chillun, I figured out the attraction of Facebook, it gives one the impression that your lame ass life is remotely interesting to people who are in turn buried in lame ass lives of their own.
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Okay chillun, I figured out the attraction of Facebook, it gives one the impression that your lame ass life is remotely interesting to people who are in turn buried in lame ass lives of their own.
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He don't think as a chillun you had the right male influence. or oh,. opps thats me that thinks you have your genders mixed up.
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