Also Sc. chuckie. [dim. of CHUCK sb.2]
1. Little or dear chuck.
1727. Fielding, Love in Sev. Masq., Wks. 1775, I. 46. Helena. Sir, my aunt will be at home before us. Sir Positive. So she will, chucky.
1840. Dickens, Barn. Rudge (1849), 321/2. Come and sit down here, will you, chuckey?
2. A chicken; a fowl generally: also in nursery lang., chuckie-bird, -birdie.
1789. Burns, To Dr. Blacklock, x. I wat she is a daintie chuckie.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xlv. Our barn-door chuckies at Charlies-hope.
1844. W. H. Maxwell, Sports & Adv. Scotl., ix. (1853), 92. The gilly is cutting up the chuckie.
1863. Atkinson, Provinc. Danby, Chucky, a chicken … of most frequent use … in speaking to children, or by children.
Chucky, var. of CHUCKIE.
