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ChuckEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Shortening of Edmonchuk. So named because of the large Ukrainian population; -чук (-čuk) is a common suffix in Ukrainian surnames.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗chuckEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Variant of chock.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗chuckEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English chuk, of onomatopoeic origin, imitative of a hen's cluck.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗chuckEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From Middle English chukken, from the noun (see above).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗chuckEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From earlier chock, likely imitative, but perhaps also from Middle English chokken (“to thrust, pierce, cram”), from Picard Old French chuquier (“to collide, strike”, intransitive verb), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to bump, shake”). Doublet of shock and shuck.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗chuckEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
From woodchuck.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗chuckEnglish (en) · Etymology 6Source text
From chuck (“to toss”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗chuckEnglish (en) · Etymology 7Source text
Clipping of nunchuck, variant of nunchaku.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- ChuckEnglish · e-37683-5025
Chuck, chuk, n. the call of a hen: a chicken (dim. Chuck′ie): a word of endearment.—v.i. to call, as a hen. [A variety of Cluck.]
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Chuck, chuk, n. a gentle blow, as under the chin: (coll.) a toss or throw; any game of pitch and toss.—v.t. to pat gently, as under the chin: to toss: to pitch.—n. Chuck′-far′thing, a game in which a farthing is chucked
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Chuck, chuk, n. a pebble or small stone: a game with such stones, often called Chuck′ies: an instrument for holding an object so that it can be rotated, as upon the mandrel of a lathe. [Der. uncertain; cf. It. cioco, a b
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