chicken

/'tʃikin/
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Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A domestic fowl bred for its meat or eggs: A common farm bird, often referring to the species Gallus gallus domesticus.
    • The meat from this bird used as food: The flesh of a chicken, prepared and eaten.
    • A person who is cowardly or lacks courage: (Informal) Someone who is easily frightened or avoids danger or confrontation.
    • A dangerous game or challenge of nerve: (Slang) A contest, often involving risk, where participants test each other's courage until one withdraws.

  2. Adjective:

    • Cowardly; easily frightened: (Informal) Describing someone who is not brave.
Usage Examples
  • Noun (Animal):
    • The farmer keeps chickens for their eggs.
    • We saw a rooster and several chickens in the yard.
  • Noun (Food):
    • For dinner, we had roast chicken with vegetables.
    • She prefers chicken to beef.
  • Noun (Person):
    • He called me a chicken for not wanting to go on the roller coaster.
    • Don't be such a chicken; it's not that scary.
  • Adjective:
    • That was a chicken thing to do, running away from the problem.
    • I felt too chicken to ask her out.
Advanced Usage
  • "Don't count your chickens before they hatch": An idiom meaning you should not make plans based on future events that may not happen.
    • You might win the lottery, but don't count your chickens before they hatch.
  • "Chicken feed": A very small or insignificant amount of money.
    • The payment they offered was chicken feed compared to the work required.
Variants and Related Words
  • Chicken-hearted (adj): Cowardly; timid.
    • The chicken-hearted soldier refused to go into battle.
  • Chicken out (phrasal verb): To decide not to do something because of fear.
    • He was going to bungee jump but chickened out at the last moment.
Synonyms
  • Fowl: A bird, especially a domestic cock or hen.
  • Coward: A person who lacks courage.
  • Timid: Showing a lack of courage or confidence.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Chicken out: To withdraw from a challenge or commitment due to fear.
    • She promised to sing karaoke but chickened out when her turn came.
Related Idioms
  • Running around like a headless chicken: Acting in a frantic, disorganized way without thinking.
    • After the fire alarm went off, everyone was running around like a headless chicken.
  • Spring chicken: A young person (often used in the negative to say someone is no longer young).
    • He's a good player, but he's no spring chicken anymore.
Adjective
  1. easily frightened
Noun
  1. a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
  2. a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
  3. a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
  4. the flesh of a chicken used for food

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