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charm n also cherm* OED ~ sb2 b obs (1633) for sense
1; EDD sb2 2: cherm D for sense 2.
1 A
chant or song.
1863 MORETON 30 ~ Pronounced cherm. A chant
or song.
2 Confused noise or sound (of voices); talking
noisily.
1940 SCAMMELL 37 "Squarin' Up": Skipper Harry his brother
was next to go in, / With the backy juice dribblin' down over his chin, / And when he
went home he was all in a charm, / With a box of black Jumbo tucked under each arm. 1975
GUY 149 But it is still a mystery why everything seemed to the outharbor
juvenile—with all this dreadful charm and racket constantly going on—why
everything then seemed so quiet, so damned quiet, for all that.
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