What is "chicken" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does chicken mean in English? Meaning of chicken definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "chicken" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "chicken": the flesh of a chicken used for food

Noun

  • Meaning: the flesh of a chicken used for food
  • Synonyms: chicken poulet volaille
  • Hyponyms: broiler capon frier fryer hen pullet roaster spatchcock
  • Hypernyms: poultry
  • Part Holonyms: breast chicken wing white meat
  • Meaning of "chicken": easily frightened

    Adjective

  • Meaning: easily frightened
  • Synonyms: chicken chickenhearted lily-livered white-livered yellow yellow-bellied
  • Similar: cowardly fearful
  • Meaning of "chicken": a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

    Noun

  • Meaning: a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
  • Synonyms: chicken gallus gallus
  • Hyponyms: biddy capon chick cock dominick dominique hen orpington rhode island red rooster spring chicken
  • Hypernyms: domestic fowl fowl poultry
  • Part Holonyms: chicken poulet volaille
  • Meaning of "chicken": a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

    Noun

  • Meaning: a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
  • Synonyms: chicken crybaby wimp
  • Hypernyms: doormat weakling wuss
  • Meaning of "chicken": a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

    Noun

  • Meaning: a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
  • Synonyms: chicken
  • Hypernyms: competition contest
  • Adjective: (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.(countable, slang) A coward.(countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Compare chickenhawk(countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person. 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, III: "This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken." Jonathan Swift Stella is no chicken.1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, III: "This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken."Jonathan Swift Stella is no chicken.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 chicken (i.e., the loser.) Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.The game of dare.
  • Synonyms:

    poltroon, dastard, quitter, coward, craven, recreant, funk, scaredy cat, yellow belly, poultry, biddy, chick, cock, hen, cockerel, pullet, capon, rooster, banty, barnyard fowl, cock-a-doodle-do, cockalorum, gump, heeler,

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