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chyack

chyack is the alternative form of chiack.

Meaning of chiack

Verb

chiack (third-person singular simple present chiacks, present participle chiacking, simple past and past participle chiacked)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, transitive) To taunt or tease.
    • Jack soon learnt that it was not politic to attack big snakes, which included the adult black, brown, and the death-ader, though he might "chiack" them to his heart's content.1912 March 1, Edward S. Sorenson, “The Biography of a Kookaburra”, in The Lone Hand, volume 10, page 366
    Synonyms:
    hound, taunt, jeer

See all 2 meanings of chiack

Forms of chyack

third-person singular presentchyacks
present participlechyacking
past participlechyacked
pastchyacked

Questions about chyack

What is chyack the alternative form of?
Chyack is the alternative form of chiack.

Words near chyack in the dictionary

  1. chwee kueh
  2. chwee kweh
  3. Chwezi
  4. Chwilog
  5. chwmn.
  6. chyack
  7. chyacked
  8. chyacking
  9. chyacks
  10. chyavanprash
  11. chyawanprash

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chyack (page history and authors); chiack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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