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▪ I. chucky|ˈtʃʌkɪ|
Also Sc. chuckie.
[dim. of chuck n.2]
1. Little or dear chuck.
1727Fielding Love in Sev. Masq. Wks. 1775 I. 46 Helena. Sir, my aunt will be at home before us. Sir Positive. So she will, chucky. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge (1849) 321/2 Come and sit down here, will you, chuckey?
2. A chicken; a fowl generally: also in nursery lang., chuckie-bird, chucky-birdie.
1789Burns To Dr. Blacklock x, I wat she is a daintie chuckie. 1815Scott Guy M. xlv, Our barn-door chuckies at Charlies-hope. 1844W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scotl. ix. (1855) 92 The gilly is cutting up the chuckie. 1863Atkinson Provinc. Danby, Chucky, a chicken..of most frequent use..in speaking to children, or by children.
▪ II. chucky
var. of chuckie. |