Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A young chicken: also used as a pet name for children. Also chuckabiddy.
Wiktionary
- n. childish A chicken or similar bird.
- n. Term of endearment for a young child.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.
Examples
“We grant the "poppet;" we concede the "chickabiddy;" and then sternly inquire if an excess of loyalty is to impugn the reason of the most ratiocinative editor?”
“Betty, the editor's housemaid, has given warning, declaring that she cannot live with any gentleman who insists upon taking her in his arms, and tossing her up and down as if she was no more than a baby; at the same time making a chirruping noise with his mouth, and calling her "poppet" and "chickabiddy.”
“All right then, chickabiddy; we'll put Mother and Baby out, then we'll take Delight around the block, and that'll be about all for to-day.”
“It's for you, chickabiddy, and if you'd like to go up there I'll show you a way.”
“Yes, chickabiddy, but I hope they will soon be over now," was the answer, as the anxious face tried to smile bravely for the child's sake.”
“Yes, chickabiddy, but I hope they will soon be over now," was the answer, as the anxious face tried to smile bravely for the child's sake,”
“I answered, "'Come back soon to your own chickabiddy' means 'Reviens bientôt à ta chérie,'" which apparently satisfied him.”
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
“The Emperor came up to me and asked, "What does chickabiddy mean?”
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
“The Emperor himself brought a cup of tea to me, a very unusual thing for him to do, and I fancy a great compliment, saying, "This is for our chickabiddy!”
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
““We’re taking the useful ones,” said Mother; “we’ve got to play at being Poor for a bit, my chickabiddy.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chickabiddy’.
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Folksy Compounds
Those great mashup words that sound like somebody's grampa made them up.
flabbergasted, flibbertigibbet, fussbudget, snickerpuss, chickabiddy, clapperclaw, screaming meemies, snicker-snack, hornswoggle, humdinger, crinkum-crankum, callithump and 11 more...
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Ada, or Ardor
I only started dog-earing 2/5 of the way through, so I'll have to re-read at some point in order to complete this list.
fatidic, herbarium, volitation, plafond, pseudopodal, hongry, dolent, dackel, fubsy, hurdies, palpebral, twayblade and 98 more...
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Gaw
Words for things both tangible and anthropic. I'm in the process of spinning off hardware into ute, and people into oofy.
cum-twang, naumachia, yngling, juggernaught, bliss ninny, iliac crest, moistened bint, slumlord, spondoolies, classy lady, charnel house, electrodoméstico and 334 more...
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Swishy Burbles
Words with a certain flowing, silly sound to them; I may as well have found them in a James Joyce novel.
podlec, shuckling, woofits, splenetic, wodges, dromedary, chickabiddy, doodsmak, plashoot, clawscrunt, dwergmal, wherrit and 159 more...
Tweets
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yarb "His own Rosalind had a ten-year-old niece, a primed chickabiddy."
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor Jun 5, 2008