chicken

[ChickĀ·en]

A chicken is a domesticated bird that is raised on farms for meat or eggs. Many cities allow people to keep a few chickens in their yards as pets and egg layers.

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

Noun
a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

Noun
a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

Noun
the flesh of a chicken used for food

Noun
a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

Adjective S.
easily frightened

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

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


Chicken

Chick"en , n. [AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock; akin to LG. kiken, k'81ken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G. k'81chkein. See Cock the animal.] 1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. 2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. 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.

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

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Usage Examples

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.

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.

I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.

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Other Usage Examples

I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

I'm from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well.

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.

I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

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