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chell

chell contraction: i shall.

Contraction

chell

  1. (West-Country, contraction, obsolete) I shall
    • Me a strat in the chups? Dest hire ma? Come aneest me, chell pummel tha, chell vag tha, chell lace tha.1839, An Exmoor Scolding, London: John Russell Smith, page 4

Proper noun capitalized: Chell

Chell

  1. A surname.
  2. A diminutive of the female given names Michelle or Shelly.
  3. Three suburbs, Chell Heath, Great Chell and Little Chell, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.

Origin of chell

From ch- + shall, from ich or che + shall.

Questions about chell

What does chell mean?
Chell means i shall.
What part of speech is chell?
Chell can be a contraction or a proper noun.

Words near chell in the dictionary

  1. chelirubine
  2. chelisochid
  3. chelisochids
  4. chelitis
  5. chelkarite
  6. chell
  7. Chellaston
  8. Chellean
  9. Chellington
  10. Chellis
  11. chello

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chell (page history and authors); Chell (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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