chookn.
/tʃʊk/, U.S. /tʃʊk/, Australian English /tʃʊk/, New Zealand English /tʃʊk/ Australian and New Zealand colloquial.
A domestic fowl, a chicken.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl)
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1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. viii. 103 Ony mair than ye'll change a Norroway falcon into a barn-door chuckie.
1895 G. Chamier South-Sea Siren xiii. 194 You will let me carve the chucky?
1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country vii. 78 If no one else has thought of chookies I know that these will be useful.
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Jan. 26 In N.S. Wales there's a fair amount of bumblefoot among the chooks.
1934 N. Scanlan Winds of Heaven ix. 79 [Grannie] will take you down..to see the chookies.
1940 A. Upfield Bushranger of Skies ix. 93 Burning Water's youngest child continued to build the walls of the ‘chook house’.
1942 G. Casey It's Harder for Girls 127 I seen one take the roof off my front veranda an' land it in th' chook-yard at the back.
1950 K. S. Prichard Winged Seeds 161 Brown bread and bacon and cuts of chookie.
1951 J. Frame Lagoon 68 My big mother with a big blue pinny to shake at me as if it were wheat for a little chook.
1969 Coast to Coast 1967–8 2 His had been wild-eyed, scraggy long-legged chooks, few in number, sneaking into the kitchen after scraps.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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