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chickaleary, a. (n.) Costers' slang.|ˈtʃɪkəlɪərɪ| [f. chick n.1 + leery a.2] Artful, ‘downy’. Also n., a ‘downy cove’.
1839W. A. Miles Poverty (Partridge), He's a right down chap, a chickle-a-leary chap. c1869Vance Ballad, Chick-a-leary Cove (Farmer), I'm a chicka-leary cove..; Whitechapel was the village I was born in. 1908Daily Chron. 3 Aug. 4/4 It's the chickalearies and their donahs that are responsible. |