'chas

Yola

Alternative forms

• chas

Etymology

'ch- +‎ was

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaz/

Contraction

'chas

1. I was
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 26:

     Ich as (or 'chas) greatly blin.

     I was greatly mistaken.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 30