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English

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Etymology

Old English cycen|ċȳcen.

Pronunciation


Noun

chicken (countable and uncountable, plural chickens)

  1. A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus.
  2. The meat from this bird eaten as food.
  3. In the Context of A coward.
  4. (countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair.
  5. In the Context of A young person of either sex.
  6. A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the loser.


Synonyms

  • (bird): cock (male only), chook, hen (female only), rooster (male only)
  • (coward):
  • (young, attractive, slim man): twink


Derived terms

Related terms


Translations

See twink

Adjective

  1. cowardly


Verb

  1. To avoid as a result of fear.
  2. To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.


Derived terms


See also


Category:Birds Category:Chickens Category:Food and drink Category:Poultry

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Chicken \Chick"en\, n. [AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock;
akin to LG. kiken, k["u]ken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G.
k["u]chkein. See Cock the animal.]
1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
[1913 Webster]

2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden;
same as spring chicken. "Stella is no chicken." --Swift.
[1913 Webster]

Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; -- so
called because first studied during the prevalence of a
cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true
cholera.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet chicken
adj : easily frightened [syn: chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered,
yellow, yellow-bellied]
n 1: the flesh of a chicken used for food [syn: poulet, volaille]
2: a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have
been developed from the red jungle fowl [syn: {Gallus
gallus}]
3: a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
[syn: wimp, crybaby]
4: a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is
continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
Moby Dictionary
Ancona , Andalusian , Australorp , Bantam , Brahma , Campine , Cochin ,
Cornish , Cornish hen , Hamburg , Hershey bar , Leghorn ,
Lord Fauntleroy , Milquetoast , New Hampshire red , Orpington , Percy ,
Plymouth Rock , Rhode Island red , Rock Cornish , Sumatra , Sussex ,
afraid , anemic , asthenic , auntie , aviation badge , baby , back out ,
badge , banty , bar , barn-door fowl , barnyard fowl , bi-guy , biddy ,
big baby , bisexual , black Minorca , black Spanish , black Sumatra ,
bloodless , blue Orpington , boggle , broiler , brooder , broody hen ,
buff Orpington , bull dyke , butch , caille , canard , caneton , capon ,
catamite , chanticleer , chapon , chevron , chick , chickabiddy ,
chicken liver , chicken out , chickenhearted , chicky , cock , cockerel ,
coward , cowardly , cowed , craven , cream puff , crybaby , dastard ,
daunted , debilitated , desert under fire , dindon , dismayed ,
domestic fowl , doormat , drake , drooping , droopy , duck , duckling ,
dull , dull tool , dunghill fowl , dyke , eagle , effeminate , effete ,
epaulet , etiolated , fag , faggot , faint , fainthearted , faintish ,
fairy , faisan , falter , fearful , feeble , femme , flabby , flaccid ,
flit , floppy , fowl , fraid-cat , fraidy-cat , fricatrice , fruit ,
fryer , funk , funk out , funker , funking , funky , game fowl , gander ,
get cold feet , gobbler , gone , goody-goody , goose , gosling , grouse ,
guinea cock , guinea fowl , guinea hen , gunsel , gutless ,
gutless wonder , hash mark , hen , hen turkey , henhearted , homo ,
homophile , homosexual , homosexualist , imbecile , impotent ,
insignia of branch , intimidated , invert , invertebrate , jellyfish ,
languid , languorous , lesbian , lightweight , lily , lily liver ,
lily-livered , limber , limp , listless , lose courage , lustless ,
marrowless , meek soul , milk-livered , milksop , milksoppish ,
milksoppy , mollycoddle , mouse , mousy , muliebrous , namby-pamby ,
nance , nancy , nebbish , nerveless , nonentity , oak leaf , oie ,
old woman , old-womanish , organization insignia , overseas bar ,
overtimid , overtimorous , panic-prone , panicky , pansy , pantywaist ,
parachute badge , partlet , partridge , patch , pathic , pheasant ,
pigeon , pigeonhearted , pigeonneau , pip , pithless , poltroon ,
poltroonish , pooped , poulard , poulet , poult , poultry , powerless ,
prissy , pullet , punk , pushover , pusillanimous , quail , queen , queer ,
quitter , rabbity , roaster , rooster , rubbery , sad sack , sapless ,
sapphist , scaredy-cat , scuttle , service stripe , setting hen ,
shoulder patch , shoulder sleeve insignia , sinewless , sissified ,
sissy , sissyish , skedaddle , slack , soft , softling , softy , sop ,
speckled Sussex , spineless , spread eagle , spring chicken ,
spunkless , squab , star , stewing chicken , strengthless , stripe ,
submarine badge , timid , timorous , tom , tom turkey , tribade , turkey ,
turkey gobbler , turkey-cock , unhardened , unmanly , unmanned ,
unnerved , unstrung , volaille , weak , weak sister , weak-kneed ,
weakhearted , weakling , weakly , white Orpington ,
white Plymouth Rock , white Wyandotte , white feather , white liver ,
white-livered , wild duck , womanish , yellow


Moby Dictionary 17
Housing Units (2000): 21
Land area (2000): 115.411025 sq. miles (298.913169 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 115.411025 sq. miles (298.913169 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13450
Located within: Alaska (AK) , FIPS 02
Location: 64.070738 N , 141.874894 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Chicken , AK
Chicken
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