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Chiack is a related term of barrack.


As a verb chiack

is (australian) to taunt or tease in jest.

As a proper noun barrack is

(male).

chiack

English

Alternative forms

* chyack

Verb

(en verb)
  • (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 , , The Naked Truth: A Life in Parts , 2011, 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.
  • (British) To taunt maliciously.
    • The gang of youths chiacked the academic.

    Synonyms

    * hound * taunt * jeer

    References

    barrack

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) baraque; from (etyl) barraca.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military, chiefly, in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings .
  • * 1829 , , The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Volume 4, page 67,
    • Before the gates of Bari, he lodged in a miserable hut or barrack , composed of dry branches, and thatched with straw; a perilous station, on all sides open to the inclemency of the winter and the spears of the enemy.
  • * 1919 , , Army Reorganization: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 1st Session, on H.R. 8287, H.R. 8068, H.R. 7925, H.R. 8870, Sept. 3, 1919-Nov. 12, 1919 , Parts 23-43, page 1956,
    • How do you distinguish between the disciplinary barracks' and the penitentiary? Where are the disciplinary ' barracks ?
  • * 1996 , , page 129,
    • I know the barracks at the training camp out on the moors.
  • (chiefly, in the plural) primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes
  • (chiefly, in the plural) any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building
  • (US, regional) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
  • (Ireland, colloquial, usually, in the plural) A police station.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To house military personnel; to quarter.
  • * 1825 , , The Republican , Volume 11, page 276,
    • Where the men were barracked' alone, unnatural crime prevailed : where the women were ' barracked , contrivances were made to render such a place a brothel.
  • To live in barracks.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (British) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
  • * 1934 , , Herbert Chapman on Football , page 140,
    • I knew that he had been barracked at times, but I did not realise that he was so sensitive.
  • * 2006 , Ramsay Burt, Judson Dance Theater: Performative traces , page 192,
    • Some people stopped concentrating on the piece altogether, some started barracking and heckling, while others began chatting to one another.
  • * 2009 , , The Heart of the Game , unnumbered page,
    • Its basic tenet was to say that if those Arsenal supporters who barracked' the board at home games could do any better, let them come forward, put some money in the club, and have a go at being directors themselves. In short, ‘Put up or shut up’, which, of course, only encouraged Johnny and One-armed Lou to heckle the Arsenal board even more. Dear old Dennis, he had no idea the ' barracking he and his fellow Arsenal directors suffered at every home game came from Spurs supporters.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for a team; to jeer at the opposition team or at the umpire (after an adverse decision).
  • * 1988 , J. A. Mangan (editor), Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad 1700-1914 , page 266,
    • The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved.
  • * 2009 , Roger Averill, Boy He Cry: An Island Odyssey , page 115,
    • I had by then explained to him my custom of occasionally listening to Australian Rules Football on our shortwave radio of a Saturday afternoon; how, despite my barracking for Essendon, I thought a player from Geelong, Gary Ablett, the best I had ever seen.
  • * 2010 , John Cash, Joy Damousi, Footy Passions , page 75,
    • ‘So to me barracking' for the footy I identified with my father, although nobody ' barracked for Essendon.’
    Synonyms
    * (jeer and heckle) badger, jeer, tease, make fun of * (cheer) cheer, root for (US)