Chiacks vs Chicks - What's the difference?
chiacks | chicks |
(chiack)
(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,
* 2008 , Helen Garner, The Art of the Dumb Question'', in ''True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction , page 13,
* 2008 , , The Naked Truth: A Life in Parts , 2011,
(British) To taunt maliciously.
As a verb chiacks
is (chiack).As a noun chicks is
.chiacks
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Verb
(head)chiack
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Alternative forms
* chyackVerb
(en verb)- They were cheerful enough, liked a bit of chiacking , and the women enjoyed the bawdy undertones of their jokes.
- 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.
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- 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.
- The gang of youths chiacked the academic.