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chookie

chookie

1 9.9
A small chicken often kept for eggs
  • noun
  • Australian
: pollo
  • On the farm, the children chased the chookie as it clucked around the yard.

Examples

  • In the backyard, a friendly chookie was pecking at the ground.

  • We had a delightful roast chookie for dinner last night.

  • The children ran outside to feed the chookie in the yard.

  • She keeps a chookie in her backyard for fresh eggs every morning.

  • At the farm, a friendly chookie followed us around hoping for some grain.

  • Look at that chookie!

  • I saw a chookie pecking at the ground.

Synonyms

chook
vschookie
  • Australian
5 9.1

A chicken kept for eggs or meat

is a slang form used there and in some other English dialects

How Informal

chookie
  • Australian
1 9.9
chook
  • Australian
5 9.1
chicken
678 1.0
poultry
22 1.6

Surface Forms

chookie singular
chookies plural

Morphology

chookie = chook (transparent) = chook + ie

Formed by the diminutive/affectionate suffix '-ie' added to the informal noun 'chook', producing an obviously related colloquial term for a chicken.

Etymology

Chookie comes from the friendly Australian and New Zealand slang chook, which is an informal name for a 'chicken'. So a chookie is just a casual, affectionate word for a small or pet 'chicken' you might keep for eggs.