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Definition chicken
Etymology 1
From Middle English chiken (also as chike > English chick), from Old English ?icen, ?ycen (“chicken”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *kiuk?n? (“chicken”), or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *kukk?n?, equivalent to cock + -en. Compare North Frisian schückling (“chicken”), Saterland Frisian Sjuuken (“chicken”), Dutch kuiken (“chick, chicken”), Low German küken (“chicken”), German Küken (“chick”), dialectal German Küchlein (“chicken”) and Old Norse kjúklingr (“chicken”).
Noun
chicken (countable and uncountable, plural chickens)
- (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- (countable, slang) A coward.
- (countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
- (countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
- The game of dare.
- 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 (that is, the loser.)
- A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
Adjective
chicken (comparative more chicken, superlative most chicken)
- (informal) Cowardly.
Etymology 2
Shortening of chicken out.
Verb
chicken (third-person singular simple present chickens, present participle chickening, simple past and past participle chickened)
Etymology 3
From chick + -en (plural ending).
Noun
chicken
- (Britain dialectal or obsolete) plural of chick
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