chickabiddy
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]chickabiddy (plural chickabiddies)
- (childish) A chicken or similar bird.
- Term of endearment for a young child or loved one.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter LIX, in Barnaby Rudge:
- Why, my dear, who'd murder sich chickabiddies as you?
- 1909, Francis Hopkinson Smith, The Man In The High-Water Boots[1]:
- "I tried to cheer her up a little with touches of warm tones here and there--all lies--same kind you tell your own chickabiddy when she's blue--but she wouldn't have it and cried straight ahead for four hours until the sun came out; but I was through by that time and waded ashore.