chiack
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʃaijæk/, /tʃaijæk/
chiack (chiacks, present participle chiacking; past and past participle chiacked)
- (Australian) To taunt or tease in jest.
- 1987, Sheila Anderson, End of the Season, in Anna Gibbs, Alison Tilson (editors), Frictions, An Anthology of Fiction by Women, page 45,
- They were cheerful enough, liked a bit of chiacking, and the women enjoyed the bawdy undertones of their jokes.
- 2008, Helen Garner, The Art of the Dumb Question, in True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction, page 13,
- Most poignantly of all, though, when I get fed up with working alone, I remember Victorian high school staffrooms of the sixties and seventies: the rigid hierarchy with its irritations, but also the chiacking, the squabbles, the timely advice from some old stager with a fag drooping off his lip.
- 2008, Graeme Blundell, The Naked Truth: A Life in Parts, 2011, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=E0L_HbGr-g4C&pg=PT70&dq=%22chiacked|chiacking%22+-intitle:%22blimey%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fi70Ttv4J6vNmAXpmeCOAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22chiacked|chiacking%22%20-intitle%3A%22blimey%22&f=false unnumbered page],
- We believed Melbourne′s two most extraordinary institutions were those of chiacking – taking the piss – and larrikinism. Although the latter would develop derogatory connotations, and chiacking was already beginning to die a slow death, sometimes perceived as offensive in its more alcoholic forms, especially by the women in our group.
- 1987, Sheila Anderson, End of the Season, in Anna Gibbs, Alison Tilson (editors), Frictions, An Anthology of Fiction by Women, page 45,
- (British) To taunt maliciously.
- The gang of youths chiacked the academic.
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