chuckie

British  

/ ˈtʃʌkɪ /

noun

1. a small stone

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Etymology

Origin of chuckie

probably from _chuck ¹

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Example Sentences

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chuckie

While he was putting the plate down under the settle Mr. Traill heard an amazed whisper "He's gien the doggie a chuckie bane."

From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson

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 Robert Burns

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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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 Elizabeth Wilson Grierson

"I'm tryin'," she answered, without looking up, "to haud the life i' the chuckie."

From The Elect Lady by George MacDonald

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