▪ I. silkie
(ˈsɪlkɪ)
Also Silkie.
[f. silk n. + -ie.]
A small chicken of a variety distinguished by long, soft plumage.
| 1885 Daily News 14 July 2/3 The little Japanese silkies are valuable for sitting on pheasants' or partridges' eggs on account of their light weight. 1937 W. W. Broomhead Poultry Breeding & Management ix. 325/1 Silkies are quaint little fowls. Ibid. 326/1 (caption) A White Silkie Cock. 1978 Country Life 11 May 1285/1, I have a clutch of pure-bred Silkies being incubated now... I am not sure where the Silkie stands in bantam genealogy. |
▪ II. silkie
var. sealchie, -kie.