chessy cat

English

Noun

chessy cat (plural chessy cats)

1. (US, slang) A Cheshire cat.
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 90:

     She felt like slapping some of them for sitting around grinning at her like a pack of chessy cats, trying to make out they looked like love.

   • 1967, S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders:

     I looked fearfully over my shoulder and there was TwoBit, grinning like a Chessy cat.