Etymology

chainies

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Today it means: Pieces of broken pottery or crockery, sometimes used to play a children's housekeeping game. Full definition →

First used 19th c.
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The story

From a regional variant of china + -ies.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 19th c. Pieces of broken pottery or crockery, sometimes used to play a children's housekeeping game.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.