chi-ike

1. costermongers' slangUsed as a salute or word of praise.

plural chi-ikes

1. UKobsoleteA hearty, often light-heartedly sarcastic, greeting.

   I lifted my lamps and saw BILLY. We did a good chi-ike, you bet! “Watcher, BILLY, old buster!” says I,[…]

   2006, Edwin James Milliken, edited by Patricia Marks, The ′Arry Ballads: An Annotated Collection of the Verse Letters by Punch Editor E.J. Milliken, page 95

2. AustraliaNew ZealandobsoleteslangA noisy hubbub

present singular third person chi-ikes · participle present chi-iking · participle past chi-iked · past chi-iked

1. UKTo mock or jeer; to chiack.

   Uncle Frank wouldn′t have liked it, and I knew how the chaps would laugh and chi-ike me for chumming up with a silly old Chinky.

   1924, “Causeway”, in Neville Braybrooke, editor, The Wind and the Rain, page 21

   1 more example

   Round about us windows began to bang upwards; a policeman on the corner looked away, pretending not to hear; a couple of tarts started to chi-ike us and then shut up suddenly.

   1939, Nicholas Monsarrat, This Is the Schoolroom, published 2000, page 8