chuckie
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of chuckie
probably from chuck 1
Example Sentences
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"She may lay 'at she likes, but it's no ilka egg laid has a chuckie intill 't," answered Miss Horn sententiously.
From Malcolm by MacDonald, George
My compliments to sister Beckie; And eke the same to honest Lucky, I wat she is a dainty chuckie, As e’er tread clay!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
Chuck or chuckie is a word of their time, and I dare say now, meaning "little pig."
From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop
It was but this day at dinner time that Jock cried out, 'Whatna daft-like chuckie hen!
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Her house sae bien, her curch sae clean I wat she is a daintie chuckie; And cheery blinks the ingle-gleed O' Lady Onlie, honest Lucky!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
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