chucky-chuckyn.
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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- to sit hard on
- to sit heavily
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- to sit in
- to sit in a person's pocket
- to sit in for
- to sit in formerly at judgement
- to sit in judgement
- to sit in one's own light
- to sit in wait
- to sit in waits
- to sit light
- to strike dead
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- to strike down
- to strike dump
- to strike fire
- to strike flag
- to strike forward, out
- to strike gold