Crossword-Solution: CHICHEVACHE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chichevache | n. | A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Lean monster that fed on patient wives. | 1 answer |
| Fabulous place | 43 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHICHEVACHE (4)
Chichevache, in old popular fable, was a monster that fed only on good women, and was always very thin from scarcity of such food; a corresponding monster, Bycorne, fed only on obedient and kind husbands, and was always fat.
LYDGATE’S LONDON LICKPENNY 81–84 LYDGATE’S BICORN AND CHICHEVACHE 85–89 DUNBAR’S BEST TO BE BLYTH 91, 92 DRAYTON’S DOWSABELL 93–96 DRAYTON’S NYMPHIDIA 97–116 POPE’S RAPE OF THE LOCK 117–137 COWPER’S JOHN GILPIN 139–146 BURNS’S TAM O’SHANTER 147–153 HOOD’S DEMON SHIP 155–158 HOOD’S TALE OF A TRUMPET 159–180 NOTE.—THE GAME OF OMBRE 181–187 GLOSSARY 188–192 INTRODUCTION.
His verses on the adventures of the Kentish rustic who came to London to get justice in the law courts, and his words set to the action of an old piece of rustic mumming, “Bicorn and Chichevache,” here represent his vein of playfulness.
For this Bicorn of his natúre Will none other manner food, But patient husbands his pastúre, And Chichevache eat’th the women good; And both these beastés, by the Rood, Be fat or lean, it may not fail, Like lack or plenty of their vitail.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1962).