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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

†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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