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chiack; chiak; chyack
verb
to tease someone AUSTRALIA, 1853
From C19 British costermonger’s slang “chi-hike” (a hurrah or friendly commendation).- — Barbara Baynton, Trooper Jim Tasman, p. 91, 1917
- Then the two children plunged in, all hands laughing and chiacking each other as to whose fingers or toes would feel the first bite. — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 155, 1947
- — W.R. Bennett, Wingman, p. 72, 1961
- The crew members who were staying behind lined up at the rail chiaking and hurling mad obscenities at us as we took off[.] — Les Such, A Yen for Yokohama, p. 129, 1963
- The holy father comes over to the gang at Zeehan one day and he begins to chiak one of the Irish fettlers for not coming to mass. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 222, 1969
- The boys met him next day with bows and extravagant curtsies. They would not stop chyacking him until he had punched up a couple. — Ronald McKie, The Mango Tree, p. 99, 1975
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