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chi-ike

interjection

  1. Used as a salute or word of praise.

noun chi-ikes

  1. UK, obsolete A hearty, often light-heartedly sarcastic, greeting. I lifted my lamps and saw BILLY. We did a good chi-ike, you bet! “Watcher, BILLY, old buster!” says I,[…]
  2. Australia, New Zealand, obsolete, slang A noisy hubbub

verb chi-ikes · chi-iking · chi-iked

  1. UK To mock or jeer; to chiack. Uncle Frank wouldn′t have liked it, and I knew how the chaps would laugh and chi-ike me for chumming up with a silly old Chinky.

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@misc{chi_ike_2026,
  title = {chi-ike},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chi-ike},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}