An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Isl. jodla, infirmiter mandere.

CHRYSTISMESS, s. Christmas.
Wallace.

CHUCKIE, s. A low or cant term for a hen, S.

Belg. kuyken, a chicken.

Chuckie-Stane, s.
1. A small pebble, S.

Teut. keyken, a small flint; if not from the circumstance of such stones being swallowed by domestic fowls.

2. A game, used by girls, in tossing up, and catching pebbles as they fall, is called the Chuckie-stanes.

CHUF, s. Clown.
Maitland Poems.

Evidently the same with [Cufe], q. v.

CHUK, s. Asellus marinus.
Sibbald.