Chicken

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The common domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus) or its young.
  • n. Any of various similar or related birds.
  • n. The flesh of the common domestic fowl.
  • n. Slang A coward.
  • n. Any of various foolhardy competitions in which the participants persist in a dangerous course of action until one loses nerve and stops.
  • n. Vulgar Slang A young gay male, especially as sought by an older man.
  • adj. Slang Afraid; cowardly.
  • verb-intransitive. Slang To act in a cowardly manner; lose one's nerve: chickened out at the last moment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young
  • n. The meat from this bird eaten as food.
  • n. A coward.
  • n. A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Cf. chickenhawk
  • n. A young or inexperienced person.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The game of dare.
  • adj. cowardly
  • v. To avoid as a result of fear.
  • v. To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
  • n. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The young of the domestic hen: in this sense now less exact than chick.
  • n. A domestic or barn-yàrd fowl, especially one less than a year old.
  • n. The young of some birds other than the domestic hen.
  • n. A common name of the pinnated grouse or prairie-hen (prairie-chicken), Cupidonia cupido (see cut under Cupidonia), and of the sharp-tailed grouse, Pediæcetes phasianellus.
  • n. A person of tender years; a child: sometimes used as a term of endearment, or with a negative (no chicken), in satirical implication of mature years.
  • n. A name applied with a qualifying adjective to various fishes, as in the north of Ireland to the Atherina presbyter, called the Portaferry chicken.
  • n. A kind of turtle whose shell is used in commerce.
  • n. Embroidery, especially embroidery upon muslin.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
  • n. a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
  • adj. easily frightened
  • 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
  • Equivalent
    cowardly    fearful   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    wuss    weakling    doormat    contest    competition   
    Variant
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    child    maiden    fowl    poult    biddy    broiler    fry    peeper    chick    cock   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Wiccan    quicken    sicken    stricken    thicken   
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