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单词 chucky-chucky
释义

chucky-chuckyn.

Forms: Also chuckie-, -chuck.
Etymology: < an Australian Aboriginal language.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈchucky-ˈchucky.
Australian.
A kind of berry, the fruit of Gaultheria hispida.
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1871 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1870 3 194 Two other Gaultheriæ are very distinct; one, of prostrate habit, bears a round white flower, which is eaten, under the name of ‘chuckiechuck’.
1885 R. C. Praed Austral. Life 146 To gather chucky-chuckies—as the blacks name that most delicious of native berries.
1885 R. C. Praed Head Station xxxv Mollie Clephane had filled one of the saddle-bags with wild plums, chuckie-chuckies, and the scrub-turkey's eggs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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