chicken

Speech parts

1. chicken - Noun

2. chicken - Adjective

3. chicken - Verb

4. chicken - Adjective Satellite

5. Chicken - Proper noun

Meaning

A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

yellow lily-livered crybaby white-livered yellow-bellied wimp chickenhearted poulet hamburg craven partridge nancy cornish springer molly

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Antonyms

lion knight hector paladin tiger victor

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Hypernyms

poultry fowl domestic fowl human food individual

Hyponyms

biddy capon rooster cock chick hen

Phrases with the word

chicken out chicken-hearted chicken foot no spring chicken chicken roost brick chicken

Anagrams

checkin

Examples

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat. Neal Barnard

I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog-or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian. Peter Dinklage

Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. Isabel Allende

Where there is a rooster the chicken will not crow. Corsican Proverb

Better an egg this year than a chicken next year. Ethiopian Proverb

A chicken that hatches a crocodile's eggs is looking for trouble. Madagascan Proverb

Close letter words and terms

chickdom chicked chickee chicken 65 chicken and egg chicken and egg question