chucky

See also: Chucky

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃʌki/

Etymology 1

From chuck (“chicken”) +‎ -y.

Noun

chucky (plural chuckies)

1. (dated or dialectal) chicken
   • 1847, The Legal Observer, Digest, and Journal of Jurisprudence, page 586:

     Mr. (afterwards) Lord Kenyon, lived in Bell Yard, Temple Bar. Mr. Kenyon's early habits were those of strict economy : he had his shoulder of mutton roasted first for one day, the next day he had it cold, and for the third or fourth day he had it hashed, resembling the old Scotch trader, who told his son he lived at first very sparingly, so that in his old age he could afford himself a chucky on a Sunday ; but he said, the young men in the present day when they began life wanted a chucky every day!

   • 1855, Sarah Elizabeth B. Patterson, Dunellan manse; or Times and trials of the Disruption, page 64:

     " The chuckies are sent to Lady Grace's, and you will feed them there. I'll take pussy to the new house," replied Henderson.

   • 1895, The Practical Elocutionist:

     She ran to the barn to help to gather the eggs, and got five, three being nest-eggs, and a cheena one, that was put there to deceive the chuckies.

   • 2014, Angela Gascoigne, Soup, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:

     “I'm not sure taking Katie to the cottage to see the chuckies in the snow was such a good idea,” she complained, her face wracked in pain as she brushed snowflakes off her hair.

Derived terms

• begin with the chucky
• chucky egg

 

Etymology 2

From chuck (“pebble”) +‎ -y.

Noun

chucky (plural chuckies)

1. (Scotland) A pebble or piece of gravel.
   • 2006, Bernard MacLaverty, Work: new Scottish writing : The Scotsman & Orange short story collection 2006, →ISBN:

     I blinked again and screwed up my eyes to look across the chuckies.

   • 2013, Grace Banks, Sheena Blackhall, Aberdeenshire Folk Tales, The History Press, →ISBN:

     She hopped out of the van, and waited calmly as Mr Gray approached. His feet crunched on the chuckies and as he walked, he took out his wallet, again counting the money.

Etymology 3

From Irish tiocfaidh, from the Republican slogan tiocfaidh ár lá (“our day will come”), perhaps punning on etymologies 1 and/or 2.

Alternative forms

• Chucky

Noun

chucky (plural chuckies)

1. (Northern Ireland, derogatory, slang) An Irish Republican, especially one who has supported the armed struggle.

Scots

Etymology

chuck +‎ -y

Noun

chucky (plural chuckies)

1. chicken
   • 1792, Canonmills Curling Club (EDINBURGH), Songs for the Curling-Club, held at Canon-Mills. By a Member, page 13

     The chuckies are no auld nor teugh, I'll draw them just e'now, I dare say we'll hae meat eneugh Shu'd our big room be fu'.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. A pebble or piece of gravel
   • 1838, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 713:

     If a song, sing, if an ode, chant, if an elegy, whine, if an epithalamium, croon it, like “a crooden'-doo,” and if blank verse, then, whatever may seem to be its subject, crunkle it up into a ball with a chucky-stane in the heart o't, and shy it at yonder lassie tramping claes

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. When you buy something and have to pay it back later, you get that good or service "on chucky"