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crackie

[krak-ee]

noun

Canadian (chiefly Atlantic Provinces).
  1. a small noisy dog.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of crackie1

First recorded in 1890–95; apparently crack + -ie; compare dialectal (Devonshire) cracky “wren, any small creature”
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Example Sentences

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Then Sally pu'd the gowans wat wi' dew an' twined her bree wi' tasseled broom, while I had a wee crackie wi' Tibby Buchan, the flesher's dochter frae Auld Reekie.

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Crackie! but I’m glad pap’s sold out.

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Crackie! but you frightened us at first!”

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By crackie!" and he slapped his knee again, "I have it!

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A dog barked—Pat Kavanagh's black crackie—and the whisper of the tide fumbling at edges of ice came up from the land-wash below the fish-house and drying-stages.

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