Harass vs Chiack - What's the difference?
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To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
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To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest.
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]
To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.
(obsolete) devastation; waste
(obsolete) worry; harassment
(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.
Harass is a related term of chiack.
As verbs the difference between harass and chiack
is that harass is to fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts while chiack is (australian) to taunt or tease in jest.As a noun harass
is (obsolete) devastation; waste.harass
English
Verb
(es)- In my old home, I always knew that John and my master were my friends; but here, although in many ways I was well treated, I had no friend. York might have known, and very likely did know, how that rein harassed me; but I suppose he took it as a matter of course that could not be helped; at any rate nothing was done to relieve me.
- in the early 1940s.
Synonyms
* hassle * harry * chivy or chivvy * chevy or chevvy * beset * plague * molest * provokeDerived terms
* harasser * harassmentExternal links
* *Noun
- (Milton)
- (Byron)
chiack
English
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.