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  • verb Present participle of chack.

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Examples

  • I pished at some long-tailed tits as they came around us, and the boys laughed because I was caught in flagrante, sucking and chacking, as another walker crossed our path.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • If they are chacking out a subject matter I like to steer them to readable NF in the area.

    Libraries, the Retail Customer Service Model, and Feel Good Marketing: Updated ricklibrarian 2007

  • Snippet joined in, and the jackdaw danced up and down on Harry's shoulder, chacking hoarsely.

    Five On Finniston Farm Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1960

  • The jackdaw flew down to Harry's shoulder, chacking loudly, bored with all this walking!

    Five On Finniston Farm Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1960

  • Snippet was there, leaping about ridiculously with little bits of wood in his mouth, and Nosey the jackdaw had suddenly taken a fancy to the shavings that now covered the floor, and ran about chacking, and picking them up.

    Five On Finniston Farm Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1960

  • Timmy came too, and so did Snippet, but the jackdaw thought better of it, and remained at the enlarged opening of the burrow, chacking loudly.

    Five On Finniston Farm Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1960

  • Timmy leapt up as if he was going to chase Nosey, and the jackdaw promptly flew up to a crossbeam, and sat there chacking with laughter.

    Five On Finniston Farm Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1960

  • Nosey flew up on to the top of the hen-house, and flapped his wings, chacking rude things in a very loud voice indeed.

    Five On Finniston Farm Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1960

  • The Valley widened as it dropped to the leap and fume and swirl of the foaming river; and the double tandem grays kept step with a proud chacking up of heads and bristling of arched necks and movement of thigh and shoulder muscles under satin skin like shuttles.

    The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

  • The two horses stood with lowered heads chacking on the bit and pawing.

    The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

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