chuckie

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/4/2010 04:00 PM, Paul Frank wrote:
>The examples of post-1979 "chuck[ies]"
>would seem to be late (semi-independent?) coinages, formed from CHUCK. v.
>"to throw".

As I said, (perhaps) earlier (than Robin's failed message), thrown
into the loch.  "I chucked the chuckie ..."?

Joel

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