chuckern.
/ˈtʃʌkə/ I. Of things.
1.
a. A small pebble used in the game of check-stones or ‘chucks’. Cf. checker n.2 3.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > five-stones or knuckle-bones > stones or bones
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check-stone1587
cockal bone1603
jackstone1678
chucker1760
Jack1863
1760 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 82/1 An old labouring man..was laying on a bench fast asleep, some boys being at play with chuckers..one chuck'd one directly into his mouth.
1811 A. Graydon Mem. (1846) 55 I never could boast my winning at marbles or chuckers.
b. U.S. (See quot.)
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1833 J. F. Watson Hist. Tales Philadelphia 153 They pitched ‘chuckers’, a kind of pewter pennies cast by the boys themselves.
2. A blow with the fist.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the hand > with the fist
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bobettingc1440
boba1568
nevel1568
fisticuffs1600
bunch1642
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poke1690
punch1766
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plug1798
chuckera1805
polthogue1808
fistera1834
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bust1893
a1805 Anstey Pindar. Ep. Ld. Buckhorse in Poet. Wks. (1808) 155 While you with frequent fist assail'd him, With chuckers in the mazzard nail'd him.
II. Of persons: One who chucks or throws.
3. esp. in chucker-out n. colloquial one who ‘chucks out’; applied to
a. A bully employed to eject fleeced victims, or persons otherwise objectionable, from a gambling-hall, tavern, or brothel.
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1884 Good Words June 400/1 He had done twelve months [in prison] for crippling for life the ‘chucker-out’ of one of these pubs.
1885 All Year Round Nov. 2226 Dens to which Brickey is attached in the capacity of chucker-out.
b. A fellow engaged to expel disturbers or opponents from a public meeting.
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1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 31 Oct. 14/1 Roughs, hired as ‘chuckers-out’ by the Tory party.
1887 Guardian 2 Mar. 343/1 Bogus meetings, where the chairman, committee, reporters, audience, and ‘chuckers-out’ were all subsidised.
c. figurative.
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1880 Punch No. 2040. 63 Lord Grey was about to resume his rôle of chucker-out to the proposed measures of his own party.
4. Cricket. colloquial. A bowler whose delivery of the ball is considered to be a throw, and hence illegal.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > bowler > types of bowler
slow bowler1823
fast bowler1828
bias bowler1854
round-arm1858
demon bowler1861
left-hander1864
chucker1882
lobster1889
slow1895
leg-breaker1904
speed merchant1913
leg-spinner1920
spin bowler1920
off-spinner1924
quickie1934
tweaker1935
swerve-bowler1944
pace bowler1947
seam bowler1948
spinner1951
seamer1952
wrist-spinner1957
outswinger1958
swing bowler1958
quick1960
stock bowler1968
paceman1972
leggy1979
1882 C. F. Pardon Australians in Eng. 158 Do not people tell you openly they think so and so a ‘chucker’?
1960 Times 3 Oct. 19/6 Meckiff said that even to think of changing his action would be to admit that those who regarded him as a ‘chucker’ were right.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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