chucky

American  

[chuhk-ee] / ˈtʃʌk i /

noun

British Dialect.

plural

chuckies

1. a chicken; fowl.

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Etymology

Origin of chucky

First recorded in 1720–30; chuck ³ + -y ²

Example Sentences

What think you of to-day at two o'clock—just a roasted chucky and a drappit egg?'

From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir

"I don't remember," he said, "that lambs ever look at any one like that"; however, he began to stroke it like this on its wool, and to say, "Chucky! chucky!"

From A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I by Garnett, Constance

"So long, chucky," the lady with the damaged feather said to him.

From Fortitude by Walpole, Hugh, Sir

And the lamb suddenly showed its teeth and said too, "Chucky! chucky!"

From A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I by Garnett, Constance

Her house sae bien, her curch sae clean, I wat she is a dainty chucky; And cheerlie blinks the ingle-gleed Of Lady Onlie, honest Lucky!

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