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/tʃˈɪkən/ Listen

noun

Chicken n.

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

A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken. "Stella is no chicken."

Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chicken" Quotes from Famous Books

... you are right," says I, taking another little fellow by the nape of the neck, and biting him off at the shoulders. Then I drank a glass of the sparklingest cider you ever tasted, and went in for an ear of corn, smoking hot, and the breast of a chicken. ...

— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens

... did her good, she privately informed the Duchess. "Just you go out there and cuss, and see." She then set herself to the task of amusing "the child," as she and the Duchess were pleased to call Piney. Piney was no chicken, but it was a soothing and original theory of the pair thus to account for the fact that she didn't swear ...

— Selected Stories • Bret Harte

... pronounced the meat far sweeter and more tender than chicken, and the empty shells soon bore ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... the wind and snow; Safe in our rooms the threat'ning storm we hear, But he feels strongly what we faintly fear." "Wilful was rich, and he the storm defied; Wilful is poor, and must the storm abide," Said the stern Lady; "'tis in vain to feel; Go and prepare the chicken for our meal." Susan her task reluctantly began, And utter'd as she went—"The poor old man!" But while her soft and ever-yielding heart Made strong protest against her lady's part, The lady's self began to think it wrong To feel so wrathful and resent ...

— Tales • George Crabbe

... merits on the one hand, or the defects on the other, of the book that deserve attention here and justify the place given to it: it is the general "chip-the-shell" character. The shell is only being chipped: large patches of it still hamper the chicken, which is thus a half developed and half disfigured little animal. All sorts of didactics, of Byronic-Bulwerish sentiment, of conventionalities of various kinds, still hold their place; the language, as we have ...

— The English Novel • George Saintsbury

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