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chucky

American  
[chuhk-ee] / ˈtʃʌk i /

noun

British Dialect.
chuckies plural
  1. a chicken; fowl.


Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

Etymology

Origin of chucky

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

Example Sentences

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

From Fortitude by Walpole, Hugh, 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

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

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

From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

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