Definition of chalkie in English:
chalkie
nounPlural chalkiesˈtʃɔːki
Australian, NZ informal A schoolteacher.
I get three holidays a year, being a chalkie and all
Example sentencesExamples
- The chalkies were demanding almost unlimited funds for education.
- But even those destined to become chalkies had to complete a further 10 weeks' training as infantrymen.
- The Australian Government is giving so much money to education at present that they can happily get stuck into the chalkies because everyone has had education as an issue.
- Australia sent scores of highly educated national servicemen - most of them chalkies - to Papua and New Guinea.
- The chalkies' job wasn't all teaching.
- The chalkies' experiences changed their lives in ways that would have been impossible to predict.
- Full-scale implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence is nigh and condemned chalkies know there is to be no education governor's reprieve.
- I have a soft spot for the teaching profession, even the chuntering chalkies of Victoria.