chemis

• chems, jhemes, jhimes, jemes, jimes

From Middle English chippe. Original /-p/ was voiced to /-m/ after long /iː/, compare Phielim (“Philip”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiːmz/, /d͡ʒiːmz/

chemis

1. chips
2. rags, pieces

• wefty chems

• chi

• 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