Meaning
A chamber pot — the covered pot kept under the bed for use at night, especially in old-time and rural homes without indoor plumbing, when no one wished to go out to the pit toilet in the dark. Emptying and washing the 'chimmy' each morning was a familiar, unglamorous household chore. Close kin to the 'po', it belongs to the vanished world of country and yard life before the flush toilet, and it lingers in older people's talk and in stories of a harder, plainer time.
Examples
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Granny keep a chimmy unda di bed.
Granny keeps a chamber pot under the bed.
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Empty di chimmy first ting inna di mawnin.
Empty the chamber pot first thing in the morning.
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Before indoor toilet, everybody did have a chimmy.
Before indoor toilets, everyone had a chamber pot.
Origin
From 'chamber' (chamber pot), worn down in Patois to 'chimmy'.
How it’s used
A chamber pot; evokes old-time and rural life before indoor plumbing.