chattry-feeder, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

chattry-feeder n.

also chatty-feeder

[? it feeds that which chatters, i.e. the mouth]

(UK prison) a spoon.

1839		H. Brandon Dict. of the Flash or Cant Lang. 162/1: Chattry feeder – a spoon.
1859		‘Hundred Stretches Hence’ in Matsell Vocabulum 124: The chips, the fawneys, chattry-feeders, / The bugs, the boungs, and well-filled readers.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1881		Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890) 11: Chatty-Feeder. Spoon.
1882		Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 2: Chattry Feeder - A spoon.