单词 | chookie birdie |
释义 | > as lemmaschookie birdie 2. Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). A chicken. Also more generally: any bird. More fully chuckie bird, chookie birdie.In the form chookie birdie frequently alluding to the Scottish nursery rhyme cited at quot. 1948. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl) chickenOE chicka1398 fowla1586 biddya1616 chuck1615 pull-fowla1688 chucky1724 dunghill1753 dunghill fowl1796 jungle-fowl1824 chook1888 gump1914 1724 A. Ramsay Monk & Miller's Wife in Health (new ed.) 70 Syne frae the Ha' Ingle bring ben, A pyping het young roasted Hen... But wicked Luck, just as the Priest Shot in his Fork in Chucky's Breast, The unwelcome Miller gae a Roar. a1810 R. Tannahill Poems & Songs Sc. Dial. (1817) 42 In the house, to be a third, She gat a wee hen chuckie bird. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. vi. 102 It's no like our barn-door chuckies at Charlies-hope. 1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Chucky, a chicken..of most frequent use..in speaking to children, or by children. 1904 ‘G. B. Lancaster’ Sons o' Men 266 Whaur did ye pit thae chuckies, Sandy? 1913 J. Service Memorables Robin Cummell 24 They leeved on milk and meal wi' whyles a fat chookie boiled in their kail. 1934 A. H. Rea Corner o' Field 20 The chuckies used to follow her when she gaed toddlin' in. 1948 in N. Montgomerie & W. Montgomerie Sandy Candy & Other Sc. Nursery Rhymes iii. 26 Wee chookie birdie, Toll -oll -oll, Laid an egg On the windy sole. The windy sole Began tae crack; Wee chookie birdie Roared and grat. 1985 E. Case in J. Milton Orig. Prints 45 ‘Ah well, who's for a bit of chookie birdie then?’ he said brandishing the carving knife. 1987 J. Kelman Greyhound for Breakfast 5 There was a bird whistling in a tree nearby... What was it looking for? It was looking for a mate. A wee female. A wee chookie. 2017 M. Cameron Ower the Tuppenny xv. 105 Ye twa boys, lave the chuckies alane or ye’ll get a skite aroon tha lug. < as lemmas |
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