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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1845, 1909-1926
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CHUCK, n.3
1. "Bread, a word used by children in Falkirk" (Slg. 1916 T.S.D.C. II.); "food" (Uls.3 1930). Known to Fif.13 (for Fif. and Clc.), Edb.1, Kcb.1 1940. Found also in Eng. dial. (E.D.D.) and American slang (D.A.E.).Edb. 1926 A. Muir Blue Bonnet 16:
Chuck! Oo, for some chuck! And the lighted window . . . was the only likely haven where food might be begged.Gsw. 1909 Colville 174:
"Chuck," a miner's term for food, suggests a note from my Border friend: — "In an evening school in Glasgow, about 25 years ago, asking the meaning of 'delicacies,' I got the answer, 'Fancy chucks.'"
2. "In the school vocabulary of the George Heriot Hospital boys, . . . 'knots of meal in porridge'" (Edb. 1916 T.S.D.C. II.). Cf. Eng. (chiefly dial.) chuck, a lump (O.E.D. s.v. chuck, n.4).Edb. 1845 F. W. Bedford Hist. G. Heriot's Hospital (1859) 347:
Dinna like either the brat on their pot or the chucks that are often in it.
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