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Chicken
| 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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