aboriginal Australian name for a berry; in Australia and New Zealand, the fruit of speciesof Gaultheria. See Wax Cluster.
1885. R. M. Praed, `Australian Life,' p. 146:
«To gather chucky-chuckies – – as the blacks name that mostdelicious of native berries.»
1891. T. H. Potts, `Out in the Open,' `New Zealand CountryJournal,' vol. xv. p. 198:
«When out of breath, hot and thirsty, how one longed for ahandful of chuckie-chucks. In their season how good we used tothink these fruits of the gaultheria, or rather itsthickened calyx. A few handfuls were excellent in quenchingone's thirst, and so plentifully did the plant abound thatquantities could soon be gathered. In these rude and simpledays, when housekeepers in the hills tried to convert carrotsand beet-root into apricot and damson preserves, these notablewomen sometimes encouraged children to collect sufficientchuckie-chucks to make preserve. The result was a jam of asweet mawkish flavour that gave some idea of a whiff caught inpassing a hair-dresser's shop.»