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Old Fri Dec 14, 2007, 01:22pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Snaqwells
Is that Yiddish?
From Dictionary.com

[Variant of chevy, a hunt, hunting cry, from Chevy Chase, title of a ballad about a border skirmish, from Cheviot Chase, a large unenclosed hunting tract in the Cheviot Hills.]

Sounds pretty English.
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