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Challenging sense 2: "(British) to taunt maliciously" (as opposed to sense 1, Australian, to do so in jest). I've never come across this word in British English at all! Equinox ◑ 09:10, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- I suspect it can be found in obsolete and/or dialect British English but it should be labelled as such, I’d never come across it until now either. There is this example in 1865 Devonian dialect of someone talking about chiacking a fox, though it seems odd that he would be merely taunting it instead of hunting it:- [1]. Overlordnat1 (talk) 12:24, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
RFV-resolved. Looking at the citations, it is pretty clear that this is an old British term that has faded from use in England, but taken off in Australia and New Zealand. It is also clear that it means to taunt, and the question of whether it is in jest or done maliciously is a matter of context, since both connotations exist in quotes from both parts of the world. Kiwima (talk) 03:15, 27 May 2022 (UTC)