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chucky

[ chuhk-ee ]

noun

, British Dialect.
, plural chuck·ies.
  1. a chicken; fowl.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of chucky1

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

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Example Sentences

Much of what passes for political coverage these days is (to borrow a phrase) “bad Chucky.”

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What the ladies of the Real Housewives of New Jersey call a “ chucky,” the Jersey Shore roommates refer to as a “kookah.”

The ladies from The Real Housewives of New Jersey discuss the "puffy chucky" issue.

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

Poor Chucky had found it quite impossible to accept the new arrangement.

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

The subject of our memoir was born in 1786, on the banks of Nola-chucky river, he being the fifth son.

"Let's go and see how old Chucky gets on," he said good-naturedly, when the man vanished.

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