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Chicken

Chicken Meaning & Definition
Chicken Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Chicken?

[n] a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
[n] a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
[n] the flesh of a chicken used for food
[n] a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
[adj] (informal) easily frightened

Synonyms | Synonyms for Chicken: chickenhearted | coward(a) | cowardly | crybaby | fearful | Gallus gallus | lily-livered | poulet | volaille | white-livered | wimp | yellow | yellow-bellied

Related Terms | Find terms related to Chicken: afraid | Ancona | Andalusian | anemic | asthenic | auntie | Australorp | aviation badge | baby | back out | badge | Bantam | banty | bar | barn-door fowl | barnyard fowl | biddy | big baby | bi-guy | bisexual | black Minorca | black Spanish | black Sumatra | bloodless | blue Orpington | boggle | Brahma | broiler | brooder | broody hen | buff Orpington | bull dyke | butch | caille | Campine | canard | caneton | capon | catamite | chanticleer | chapon | chevron | chick | chickabiddy | chicken liver | chicken out | chickenhearted | chicky | Cochin | cock | cockerel | Cornish | Cornish hen | 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 | Hamburg | hash mark | hen | hen turkey | henhearted | Hershey bar | homo | homophile | homosexual | homosexualist | imbecile | impotent | insignia of branch | intimidated | invert | invertebrate | jellyfish | languid | languorous | Leghorn | lesbian | lightweight | lily | lily liver | lily-livered | limber | limp | listless | Lord Fauntleroy | lose courage | lustless | marrowless | meek soul | milk-livered | milksop | milksoppish | milksoppy | Milquetoast | mollycoddle | mouse | mousy | muliebrous | namby-pamby | nance | nancy | nebbish | nerveless | New Hampshire red | nonentity | oak leaf | oie | old woman | old-womanish | organization insignia | Orpington | overseas bar | overtimid | overtimorous | panicky | panic-prone | pansy | pantywaist | parachute badge | partlet | partridge | patch | pathic | Percy | pheasant | pigeon | pigeonhearted | pigeonneau | pip | pithless | Plymouth Rock | poltroon | poltroonish | pooped | poulard | poulet | poult | poultry | powerless | prissy | pullet | punk | pushover | pusillanimous | quail | queen | queer | quitter | rabbity | Rhode Island red | roaster | Rock Cornish | 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 | Sumatra | Sussex | timid | timorous | tom | tom turkey | tribade | turkey | turkey gobbler | turkey-cock | unhardened | unmanly | unmanned | unnerved | unstrung | volaille | weak | weak sister | weakhearted | weak-kneed | weakling | weakly | white feather | white liver | white Orpington | white Plymouth Rock | white Wyandotte | white-livered | wild duck | womanish | yellow

See Also | bantam | biddy | breast | broiler | capon | capon | chick | chicken | chicken | chicken wing | cock | competition | contest | domestic fowl | Dominick | Dominique | doormat | fowl | frier | fryer | Gallus gallus | hen | hen | Orpington | poulet | poultry | poultry | pullet | Rhode Island red | roaster | rooster | spatchcock | spring chicken | volaille | weakling | white meat | wuss

Chicken In Webster's Dictionary

\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. 2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. ``Stella is no chicken.'' --Swift. {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.

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