Choak (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Choak

Choak away, the churchyard’s near; a jocular saying to a person taken with a violent fit of coughing, or who has swallowed any thing, as it is called the wrong way; Choak, chicken, more are hatching: a like consolation.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Chiving Lay * Choak Pear

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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