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Quotation dates: 1825, 1894
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CHIPPIE-BURDIE, CHIPPY-BURDIE, n. comb. Something promised to a child in order to pacify it. [′tʃɪpɪ̢ ′bʌrdi]Lth. 1825 Jam.2:
I'll gie you a chippie-burdie.Edb. 1894 P. H. Hunter J. Inwick vii.:
Ye're juist like a wheen bairns, stan'in afore the sweetyman's windy . . . an' Tod-Lowrie sayin til ye . . . gie me your votes, my bonny lambs, an ye'll get a chippy-burdie to play yoursels wi' some day!
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