chi-yiking?

[Jeff]

In Jeeves and the Song of Songs, there is what can only be called rash
use of the word "chi-yiking". Can anyone tell me what it means?

The context:
"The clean, bright entertainment was in full swing when I arrived, and
somebody who looked as if he might be the local undertaker was
reciting 'Gunga Din'. And the audience, though not actuallly
chi-yiking in the full technical sense of the term, had a grim look
which I didn't like at all."
-from the Jeeves Omnibus 3, p. 435.

Now it is clear from the context that "chi-yiking" is nothing to be
trifled at. So please, no speculation. Kindly answer only if you
have a certain source of the meaning or etymology of the term.

Thank you,
Jeff

[Henry Braun]

Post by Jeff
In Jeeves and the Song of Songs, there is what can only be called rash
use of the word "chi-yiking". Can anyone tell me what it means?
Now it is clear from the context that "chi-yiking" is nothing to be
trifled at. So please, no speculation. Kindly answer only if you
have a certain source of the meaning or etymology of the term.

Let me speculate: it is a fanciful pronunciation of the word "cheeking",
in its sense of "addressing cheekily or saucily; speaking with cool
impudence to, confronting audaciously".

I believe it turns up in the vulgar speech of St Austin's, too.

Old Alleynian

[Anthony Hope]

Post by Jeff
In Jeeves and the Song of Songs, there is what can only be called rash
use of the word "chi-yiking". Can anyone tell me what it means?

<de-lurk>

This is a curious word, both because it's so rare and because of the
two instances of it that Google turns up: one's from a diary entry by
Frederick Forsyth (quite Wodehousean in parts -- note use of "cove")
and the other, which could hardly be further removed in either tone or
content, is from a piece of gay boy-band fan-fiction:

http://google.com/search?q=chi-yiking

The answer to your question, though, can be found in this very
newsgroup, albeit only in a post from 1996. If only we had a time
machine so we could read it again. Oh, wait:

http://google.com/groups?&selm=ZCZ2cUA%2BIVDxEw3M%40jsbach.demon.co.uk

</de-lurk>

Post by Jeff
In Jeeves and the Song of Songs, there is what can only be called rash
use of the word "chi-yiking". Can anyone tell me what it means?
"The clean, bright entertainment was in full swing when I arrived, and
somebody who looked as if he might be the local undertaker was
reciting 'Gunga Din'. And the audience, though not actuallly
chi-yiking in the full technical sense of the term, had a grim look
which I didn't like at all."
-from the Jeeves Omnibus 3, p. 435.
Now it is clear from the context that "chi-yiking" is nothing to be
trifled at. So please, no speculation. Kindly answer only if you
have a certain source of the meaning or etymology of the term.
Thank you,
Jeff

[charles]

Chi-yiking simple means acting the goat (playing up big time and distracting
others) . Kids in school chi-yik in class if they become bored with the
lesson.

Pillingshot (the pride of St Austins)

Post by Anthony Hope

Post by Jeff
In Jeeves and the Song of Songs, there is what can only be called rash
use of the word "chi-yiking". Can anyone tell me what it means?

<de-lurk>
This is a curious word, both because it's so rare and because of the
two instances of it that Google turns up: one's from a diary entry by
Frederick Forsyth (quite Wodehousean in parts -- note use of "cove")
and the other, which could hardly be further removed in either tone or

Post by Jeff
Jeff

[Jeff]

Thank you for your excellent response. I found the same two uses in
Google, and surmised that the authors were familiar with the text in
Woodhouse.
I searched this newsgroup, but was led astray by the hyphen, which
fails to appear in the post from '96.
Cheers!
Jeff

Post by Anthony Hope

Post by Jeff
In Jeeves and the Song of Songs, there is what can only be called rash
use of the word "chi-yiking". Can anyone tell me what it means?

<de-lurk>
This is a curious word, both because it's so rare and because of the
two instances of it that Google turns up: one's from a diary entry by
Frederick Forsyth (quite Wodehousean in parts -- note use of "cove")
and the other, which could hardly be further removed in either tone or
http://google.com/search?q=chi-yiking
The answer to your question, though, can be found in this very
newsgroup, albeit only in a post from 1996. If only we had a time
http://google.com/groups?&selm=ZCZ2cUA%2BIVDxEw3M%40jsbach.demon.co.uk
</de-lurk>

Post by Jeff
In Jeeves and the Song of Songs, there is what can only be called rash
use of the word "chi-yiking". Can anyone tell me what it means?
"The clean, bright entertainment was in full swing when I arrived, and
somebody who looked as if he might be the local undertaker was
reciting 'Gunga Din'. And the audience, though not actuallly
chi-yiking in the full technical sense of the term, had a grim look
which I didn't like at all."
-from the Jeeves Omnibus 3, p. 435.
Now it is clear from the context that "chi-yiking" is nothing to be
trifled at. So please, no speculation. Kindly answer only if you
have a certain source of the meaning or etymology of the term.
Thank you,
Jeff

[Miche Doherty]

Post by Jeff
Now it is clear from the context that "chi-yiking" is nothing to be
trifled at. So please, no speculation. Kindly answer only if you
have a certain source of the meaning or etymology of the term.

In The Impersonator, an episode of Hancock's Half Hour, Hancock is a
touring actor embarrassed by an impersonation of him in a TV commercial:

Hancock: Humiliation has been heaped on me. I have been ridiculed
from all parts of the house. Prices of the seats has been
no barrier. I have been chi-iked from the balcony, from
the dress circle, and from the stalls. And last week, the
final indignity - chi-iked by the raspberry mousse and
drink-on-a-stick girls.

So: heckled, cat-called, given the bird.

Monty Bodkin.

[Jeff]

Er... one more question. As to the pronunciation, how is it done?
Chee-yiking?
Chai-yiking?

Cheers!
Jeff

Post by Miche Doherty

Post by Jeff
Now it is clear from the context that "chi-yiking" is nothing to be
trifled at. So please, no speculation. Kindly answer only if you
have a certain source of the meaning or etymology of the term.

In The Impersonator, an episode of Hancock's Half Hour, Hancock is a
Hancock: Humiliation has been heaped on me. I have been ridiculed
from all parts of the house. Prices of the seats has been
no barrier. I have been chi-iked from the balcony, from
the dress circle, and from the stalls. And last week, the
final indignity - chi-iked by the raspberry mousse and
drink-on-a-stick girls.
So: heckled, cat-called, given the bird.
Monty Bodkin.

[Monty Bodkin]

Post by Jeff
Er... one more question. As to the pronunciation, how is it done?
Chee-yiking?
Chai-yiking?

In the Hancock episode I referred to, chiyike/chi-ike is pronounced to
rhyme with "try Ike".

Miche.