[f. CHICK + BIDDY2.] A nursery formation on chick or chicken; hence a term of endearment to young children.

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1785.  Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Chickabiddy, a chicken so called to, and by little children.

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1829.  Marryat, F. Mildmay, xxiv. You will be aboard of my chickabiddies.

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1848.  Dickens, Dombey (1865), II. 183. Do you, sweet Rob? Do you truly, chickabiddy?

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1862.  Mrs. H. Wood, Mrs. Hallib., III. xx. (1888), 427. I’ll leave it to the eldest chickabiddy. Ibid. (1870), G. Canterbury’s Will, II. vi. 113.

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