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chook; chookie; chuckie
noun- an adult domestic chicken, male or female AUSTRALIA, 1900
First appearing in Australia in the diminutive form “chuckey” this word is imitative of the cluck of the hen but also owes something to “chicken.” In general use in British dialect from C18 as chuck, chuke, and the diminutive chookie, chucky, where it was also used as a term of endearment from the C19. - They shuffled back, like chooks scolded with an old woman’s apron. — Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, p. 150, 1945
- Ever see the poultry at the Royal Show? There’s a lot of interest in chooks. — George Blaikie, Remember Smith’s Weekly?, p. 109, 1950
- The scent lay across the compound to a shed where were kept bags of wheat for Esther Harmon’s chooks, and lucerne for her brother’s horse. — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 126, 1959
- He put down the phone and stood cackling like a chook who’s sniffed laughing gas. — Willie Fennell, Dexter Gets The Point, p. 87, 1961
- At four I had showed a slight aptitude for country living. I would willingly help Father throttle chooks for the dinner table by cleaning the giblets and plucking out the pin-feathers. — Kerry Cue, Crooks, Chooks and Bloody Ratbags, p. 16, 1983
- Prime Ministers, their wives, and Ministers start scratching around like chooks for ways to raise taxes. They can think of nothing else but to try to find out how they can get more taxes. — Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Johspeak, p. 13, 1988
- I want to say everything, but instead I’m making chook noises I’m swallowing so hard. — Glyn Parry, Mosh, p. 41, 1996
- Did I ever tell you about when I was in the RAAF and those chooks got on the runway? — Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, p. 48, 1998
- a slaughtered chicken dressed for cooking; a cooked chicken AUSTRALIA
- You should have come down and had Christmas dinner with us. We had a chook, but it was as hard as a football. — Ruth Park, The Harp In The South, p. 72, 1948
- I won a chook at a pub once. — Alexander Buzo, Rooted, p. 52, 1969
- You can’t go from being a fun-loving, outrageous, independent woman to being the wife of “some bloke” you’ve grabbed like a chook from the freezer at Wollies! — Gretel Killeen, Hot Buns and Ophelia get a Bloke, p. 73, 2000
- cooked chicken meat AUSTRALIA
- Well, what do you expect aboard a bloody windjammer, Miss Miller–roast chook? — Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, p. 160, 1945
- Probably chook for tea tonight. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 213, 1969
- Once my father killed four of them and she cooked them for Sunday dinner, but although we liked chook my sisters and I cried all through it, and would only eat the vegetables. — T. A. G. Hungerford, Stories From Suburban Road, p. 54, 1983
- “That means there’s chook for dinner tonight,” Mum says with a smile. — Tim Winton, That eye, the sky, p. 84, 1986
- a woman, especially an elderly woman AUSTRALIA, 1915
- The old chook here owns the block. We change in the laundry. She makes us a cuppa tea, we bring our own lunch. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 35, 1957
- That reminds me, when you see the old chook you might tell her. It’s been a hundred-and-bloody-three in the shade here, and there’s not all that much call for mittens or balaclavas! — George Johnston, My Brother Jack, p. 307, 1964
- First thing he does is knock the hat off an old chook sittin’ in front of us. — John O’Grady, Aussie Etiket, p. 15, 1971
- a fool AUSTRALIA, 1955
- He wondered why the Navy bred so many “chooks.” — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 48, 1962
- She twitched her head swiftly from side to side and Danny reached out to steady the large label secured round her neck. It read: “Greetings–From One Prize Chook to Another.” — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 64, 1962
- a coward AUSTRALIA
A variation of CHICKEN- I’ve recently taken up mountain bike riding, but I’m a bit of a chook when it comes to sitting tall in the saddle. — Lesbians on the Loose, p. 46, 1997
▶ choke the chook; milk the chook
(of a male) to masturbate AUSTRALIA
Variant of CHOKE THE CHICKEN.- — A.D. Peterkin, The Bald-Headed Hermit & The Artichoke, p. 88, 1999
▶ like a chook with its head chopped off; like a chook without a head
without rhyme or reason AUSTRALIA
A variant of HEADLESS CHICKEN.- The local coppers had been running around like chooks without their heads for the last few days, looking for an old bloke from the town who had gone missing. — Kerry Cue, Crooks, Chooks and Bloody Ratbags, p. 204, 1983
- And Master Egoroff aren’t you the lunatic who was running around like a chook with its head chopped off giving away penalties all the time? — Hugh Lunn, Fred & Olive’s Blessed Lino, p. 90, 1993
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