ˈchucky-ˈchucky Austral.
Also chuckie-, -chuck.
[Native name.]
A kind of berry, the fruit of Gaultheria hispida.
| 1871 Trans. N.Z. Inst. 1870 III. 194 Two other Gaultheriæ are very distinct; one, of prostrate habit, bears a round white flower, which is eaten, under the name of ‘chuckiechuck’. 1885 Mrs. C. Praed Australian Life 146 To gather chucky-chuckies—as the blacks name that most delicious of native berries. 1885 ― Head Station xxxv, Mollie Clephane had filled one of the saddle-bags with wild plums, chuckie-chuckies, and the scrub-turkey's eggs. |