Chicken

  • 31chicken — noun 1》 a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one. 2》 informal a coward.     ↘a game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser. adjective informal cowardly. verb… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 32chicken —   Moa; moa hiwa, moa alae (black); moa lawa, moa uakea (white); moa ula hiwa (black with red at neck and rump); moa nēnē (speckled); moa pua hau (yellow); piopio (at about the fryer stage).    ♦ The chicken is a chief, the chicken sits on top of… …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 33Chicken EP — Infobox Album | Name = Chicken Type = EP Artist = Ednaswap Released = 1996 Recorded = 1995 Genre = Hard rock, Post grunge Length = 52:59 Label = Island Records Producer = Ednaswap Reviews = *Allmusic (3/5)… …

    Wikipedia

  • 34chicken — [OE] Chicken is a widespread Germanic word (Dutch has kuiken, for instance, and Danish kylling), whose ancestor has been reconstructed as *kiukīnam. This was formed, with a diminutive suffix, on a base *keuk , which some have claimed is a variant …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 35chicken — I. n 1. a coward. In this sense the word has been in use for several centuries, although the children s taunt or exclama tion was an Americanism of the early 1950s. 2a. a young male who is, or is likely to be, preyed on by an older homosexual, in …

    Contemporary slang

  • 36chicken — chick•en [[t]ˈtʃɪk ən[/t]] n. 1) ahb. orn a domestic fowl, Gallus domesticus, descended from various jungle fowl of SE Asia and developed in a number of breeds for its flesh, eggs, and feathers 2) ahb. orn the young of this bird, esp. when less… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 37chicken — [OE] Chicken is a widespread Germanic word (Dutch has kuiken, for instance, and Danish kylling), whose ancestor has been reconstructed as *kiukīnam. This was formed, with a diminutive suffix, on a base *keuk , which some have claimed is a variant …

    Word origins

  • 38chicken — 1. noun /ˈtʃɪk.ɪn/ a) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young This case will make a stir, sir, he remarked. It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken. b) The meat from this bird eaten as food. Syn: cock, chook, hen …

    Wiktionary

  • 39chicken — I Australian Slang coward; cowardly II Philippine English Something which is easy or easily accomplished. The final exam was chicken The final exam was easy. This is derived from the expression chicken feed …

    English dialects glossary

  • 40chicken — 1) Term of endearnment for co worker, often used in its plural form in relation to team. Chickens, time for the meeting.... 2) Used to describe someone who runs around doing things, but doesn t understand why (running around like a chicken with… …

    Dictionary of american slang