chi-ike

intj, noun, verb — 4 senses

chi-ike

intj

1

Used as a salute or word of praise.

Costermongers' slang

chi-ike

noun

1

UK, Obsolete A hearty, often light-heartedly sarcastic, greeting.

I lifted my lamps and saw BILLY. We did a good chi-ike, you bet! “Watcher, BILLY, old buster!” says I,[…]2006, Edwin James Milliken, edited by Patricia Marks, The ′Arry Ballads: An Annotated Collection of the Verse Letters by Punch Editor E.J. Milliken, page 95:

2

Australia, New Zealand, Obsolete, Slang A noisy hubbub

chi-ike

verb

1

UK To mock or jeer; to chiack.

Uncle Frank wouldn′t have liked it, and I knew how the chaps would laugh and chi-ike me for chumming up with a silly old Chinky.1924, “Causeway”, in Neville Braybrooke, editor, The Wind and the Rain, page 21:
Round about us windows began to bang upwards; a policeman on the corner looked away, pretending not to hear; a couple of tarts started to chi-ike us and then shut up suddenly.1939, Nicholas Monsarrat, This Is the Schoolroom, published 2000, page 8:

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