Vex vs Chiack - What's the difference?
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To trouble aggressively, to harass.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XII:
To annoy, irritate.
To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
(rare) To twist, to weave.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
* Alexander Pope
(Australian) To taunt or tease in jest.
* 1987 , Sheila Anderson, End of the Season'', in Anna Gibbs, Alison Tilson (editors), ''Frictions, An Anthology of Fiction by Women , page 45,
* 2008 , Helen Garner, The Art of the Dumb Question'', in ''True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction , page 13,
* 2008 , , The Naked Truth: A Life in Parts , 2011,
(British) To taunt maliciously.
As verbs the difference between vex and chiack
is that vex is to trouble aggressively, to harass while chiack is to taunt or tease in jest.As a noun VEX
is initialism of w:Venus Express|Venus Express|lang=en.vex
English
Verb
(es)- In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregacion, to vexe them.
- Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.
- some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom
- (Chapman)
- White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "vex")Synonyms
* (to annoy) agitate, irritate * (to cause mental suffering) afflict, tormentDerived terms
* vexed * vexer * vexingly * vexation * vexatiouschiack
English
Alternative forms
* chyackVerb
(en verb)- They were cheerful enough, liked a bit of chiacking , and the women enjoyed the bawdy undertones of their jokes.
- Most poignantly of all, though, when I get fed up with working alone, I remember Victorian high school staffrooms of the sixties and seventies: the rigid hierarchy with its irritations, but also the chiacking , the squabbles, the timely advice from some old stager with a fag drooping off his lip.
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- We believed Melbourne?s two most extraordinary institutions were those of chiacking' – taking the piss – and larrikinism. Although the latter would develop derogatory connotations, and ' chiacking was already beginning to die a slow death, sometimes perceived as offensive in its more alcoholic forms, especially by the women in our group.
- The gang of youths chiacked the academic.