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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1851

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†CHICK, CHICKIE, n.2 (See note to quot.)Abd. 1851 W. Anderson Rhymes, etc. 149:
But they had to submit, were they little or big, For they a' got a “chick” at the Auld Bow Brig.

[A “chick or chickie” was the ceremony of initiation which every one had to submit to, [in being made a Fencible] and was rather unseemly in its character (Foot-note).]

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