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chi-ike en · INTJ
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(qualifier:costermongers' slang) Used as a salute or word of praise.
chi-ike en · NOUN
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(UK, obsolete) A hearty, often light-heartedly sarcastic, greeting.
I lifted my lamps and saw BILLY. We did a good chi-ike, you bet!
“Watcher, BILLY, old buster!” says I,[…]
2006, Edwin James Milliken, edited by Patricia Marks, The ′Arry Ballads: An Annotated Collection of the Verse Letters by Punch Editor E.J. Milliken, page 95:
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(Australia, New-Zealand, obsolete, slang) A noisy hubbub
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chi-ike en · VERB
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(UK) To mock or jeer; to chiack.
Uncle Frank wouldn′t have liked it, and I knew how the chaps would laugh and chi-ike me for chumming up with a silly old Chinky.
1924, “Causeway”, in Neville Braybrooke, editor, The Wind and the Rain, page 21:Round about us windows began to bang upwards; a policeman on the corner looked away, pretending not to hear; a couple of tarts started to chi-ike us and then shut up suddenly.
1939, Nicholas Monsarrat, This Is the Schoolroom, published 2000, page 8:
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