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  • The insincerity of pronouncing "chicken" as "chicking" is obvious to most simply by the word-final en.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • The insincerity of pronouncing "chicken" as "chicking" is obvious to most simply by the word-final en.

    A tasty bucket of 'chicking' 2009

  • You give four satisfackary reazns that the play is bad (the secknd is naught, — for your no such chicking at play-writing, this being the forth).

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • HEMMER: Also this hour in a moment, the animal rights group, PETA, has released evidence allegedly showing the abuses in a chicking -- chicken, rather, processing plant.

    CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2004 2004

  • She needed a wrapper, she said, and some cologne, and three new night-gowns, and "a lil chicking."

    Many Kingdoms Elizabeth Garver Jordan 1907

  • Spitt cougt a almost full groan chicking today. the chicking stuck his head between the slats and Spitt grabed him with his claus and pulled him the rest of the way in and toar him in peaces and et most of him. it is verry xpensive to keep two mutch stock but i hait to let eether of them go.

    Brite and Fair Worth Brehm 1899

  • "Go afta 'de perfusser, it was him dat tole me youalls tasted lak chicking."

    The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic John Henry Goldfrap 1898

  • "Ah dunno 'bout de idah," observed Rastus, as he cranked up the machine, and the boys and the professor climbed on board; "but ah couldn 'resis' de chicking."

    The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic John Henry Goldfrap 1898

  • "As good as chicking!" exclaimed Rastus, delightedly.

    The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic John Henry Goldfrap 1898

  • "After what I went through with standing over that roaring furnace of a kitchen-range, it does seem hard to see my sole just turned over and played with, like, and my chicking not so much as touched," said the dame.

    Run to Earth A Novel 1875

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