chicken

chicken

chicken (third-person singular simple present chickens, present participle chickening, simple past and past participle chickened)

1. (intransitive) To avoid as a result of fear.
2. (intransitive) To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chickens, for example, bumps on the skin.

chicken (countable and uncountable; plural chickens)

1. (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young
2. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
3. (countable, slang) A coward.
4. (countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Cf. chickenhawk
5. (countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
   • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, III:

     ""This case will make a stir, sir,"" he remarked. ""It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken.""

6. 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.
7. The game of dare.

chicken (comparative more chicken, superlative most chicken)

1. cowardly

	pollo
	meat
	bird
	La carne del pollo domestico (Gallus gallus domesticus).
	The flesh of the domesticated chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
	Un tipo di uccello domestico dell'ordine dei Galliformi. Spesso allevato a scopi di alimentazione (Gallus gallus domesticus).
	A type of domesticated bird from the order of Galliformes which is often raised as a type of poultry (Gallus gallus domesticus).

	gallina
	bird

	gallo
	bird

	coniglio
	coward
	Una persona che non ha coraggio.
	A person who lacks courage.

	pulcino
	Una persona giovane.
	A youthful person.

	codardo
	Una persona che non ha coraggio.
	A person who lacks courage.

	fifone
	Una persona che non ha coraggio.
	A person who lacks courage.

galletto

gallus gallus domesticus

pauroso

pollastro

Altri significati:

(domestic) chicken

(countable, slang) A coward.

The game of dare.

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.

(countable) A domestic fowl, '''Gallus gallus''' , especially when young

(countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. '''Cf. chickenhawk'''

(intransitive) To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.

(intransitive) To avoid as a result of fear.

(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.

chicken (meat)

(countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.

cowardly

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