[Echoic: cf. CHUCK sb.1]
1. intr. To make a clucking noise like a fowl, or that used by henwives in calling fowls.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Nun’s Pr. T., 362. He chukketh, whan he hath a corn yfounde, And to hym rennen thanne hise wiues alle.
1601. Bp. Barlow, Eagle & Body (1609), D iij a. Others … chucking and crying ouer the prey which they haue found dead.
a. 1700. Dryden, Cock & Fox, 441. He chucked again, when other corns he found.
1863. N. Macleod, in Gd. Words, 150. Waddling about and chucking among her numerous family of poultry.
2. with compl. (trans.) To call (together) by making this noise.
a. 1700. Dryden, Cock & Fox, 430. Then crowing clapped his wings … To chuck his wives together in the hall.
† 3. intr. To chuckle; to laugh inwardly. Obs.
1598. Florio, Gongolare, to laugh at the hart till it be sore, or shoulders ake, to chuck.
1598. Marston, Sat., I. 139. Who would not chuck to see such pleasing sport? Ibid. (1599), Sco. Villanie, III. xi. 230. And then he chukes, and is as proud of this As Taphus when he got his neighbours blisse.
4. intr. To incite (a horse) by a well-known palatal cluck used for the purpose.
1843. Lever, J. Hinton, xxxvii. (1878), 254. I flogged and chucked the old beast … up the rising ground.
