"chickenry" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: chickenries [plural], chickenery [alternative]
Etymology: From chicken + -ry. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|chicken|ry}} chicken + -ry Head templates: {{en-noun}} chickenry (plural chickenries)
  1. (rare, countable) A hen house or chicken coop, a place in which chickens are reared. Tags: countable, rare
    Sense id: en-chickenry-en-noun-kn7aMzXf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ry, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 95 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 94 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

Forms: checkenary [alternative]
Head templates: {{head|en|misspelling}} chickenry
  1. Misspelling of chicanery. Tags: alt-of, misspelling Alternative form of: chicanery
    Sense id: en-chickenry-en-noun-Px9pSwZu
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From chicken + -ry.",
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        {
          "ref": "1857, Maria Honetcombe, “Letters from la Ruche”, in Arthur's Home Magazine:",
          "text": "Not \"by the brook,\" as Halleck sings, but by the chickenry,",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Jyoti K. Parikh, Energy systems and development:",
          "text": "The bio-gas could also utilize waste from piggeries, chickeneries and human beings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Samantha Weinberg, Last of the pirates: the search for Bob Denard:",
          "text": "The chickenry next door, which looked suspiciously small to house a thousand birds, was also a complete wreck.",
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        }
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        "(rare, countable) A hen house or chicken coop, a place in which chickens are reared."
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          "ref": "1988, Pingle Jaganmohan Reddy, In search of unity and secularism:",
          "text": "It is not necessary to advert in any detail to the chickenry adopted by the two Priests who cooked up this theory or the story leading thereto[…]",
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        {
          "ref": "1991, Iqbal Ansari Khan, The third eye: glimpses of the politicos:",
          "text": "[…]elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chickenry, perjury, forgery, are the weapons, offensive and defensive, of the people of[…]",
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        },
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          "text": "The bio-gas could also utilize waste from piggeries, chickeneries and human beings.",
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          "ref": "1994, Samantha Weinberg, Last of the pirates: the search for Bob Denard:",
          "text": "The chickenry next door, which looked suspiciously small to house a thousand birds, was also a complete wreck.",
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