chucky

American  

[chuhk-ee] / ˈtʃʌk i /

noun

British Dialect.

chuckies plural

1. a chicken; fowl.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• chuckies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of chucky

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

chucky chuckies

"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

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

From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir

"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

Veal florentines, in the o'en baken, Weel plenish'd wi' raisins and fat; Beef, mutton, and chuckies, a' taken Het reekin' frae spit and frae pat.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

"Lassie, I canna hae the bittie dog in wi the broodin' chuckies!"

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

How could he make his ignorant brother chuckies appreciate those cookies!

From A Woman Tenderfoot by Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin