chuckie
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of chuckie
probably from chuck 1
Example Sentences
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My compliments to sister Beckie, And eke the same to honest Lucky; I wat she is a daintie chuckie, As e'er tread clay; And gratefully, my gude auld cockie, I'm yours for aye.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
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
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
Then it laid its burdens on the thatch, and, flying down to the courtyard, picked up a number of little chuckie stones.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson
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