Chicken

Etymology
From, from cicen:, cycen:, diminuitive of coc:, cocc:. Cognate with kuiken:,  küken:,  Küken:,  dialectal Küchlein:. More at cock, -en.

Noun

 * 1)  A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young
 * 2)  The meat from this bird eaten as food.
 * 3)  A coward.
 * 4)  A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Cf. chickenhawk
 * 5)  A young or inexperienced person.
 * 6) * 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."
 * 1) 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.
 * 2) The game of dare.

Synonyms

 * cock, chook , hen , rooster
 * twink
 * spring chicken
 * See also Thesaurus:coward
 * See also Thesaurus:coward

Derived terms

 * chicken and egg
 * chicken feed
 * chicken fillet
 * chickenhawk
 * chicken Kiev


 * chickenpox
 * chicken salt
 * chickenshit
 * like a chicken with its head cut off
 * like a chicken with the pip


 * play chicken
 * run around like a chicken with its head cut off
 * spring chicken

Related terms

 * chick

Translations

 * Afrikaans: hoender, haan, hen
 * Alabama: akaaka (1)
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:,  ,
 * Azeri: toyuq
 * Basque: oilasko, oilo
 * Belarusian: птушаня (ptušańa) / птушане (ptušanie), курыца (kuryca), кураня (kurańa) / куране (kuranie)
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: yar, penn yar
 * Bulgarian:, ярка
 * Burmese: ကြက်
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Cebuano: manok
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee:
 * Chickasaw: akaka
 * Chinese: 雞, 鷄, 鸡 (jī)
 * Min Nan:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: slepice, kur , kuře
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, , hoen
 * Erzya: сараз (saraz)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: koklo, koklovi (young)
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: kananpoika, kana
 * French:
 * Friulian: poleç, gjaline
 * Galician: galo, galiña
 * German:
 * Greek: κοτόπουλο
 * Hebrew: תרנגול (tarnegol), תרנגולת (tarnegolet)
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hænsn, kjúklingur
 * Ilocano: manok
 * Inari Sami: kääni
 * Indonesian:
 * Acehnese:
 * Javanese: pitik
 * Kaili: manu
 * Mandar: manuq
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 鶏 (ニワトリ, niwatori)
 * Kiput: aan
 * Korean: 닭 (dak)


 * Kurdish: ,
 * Ladin: gialina
 * Lao: (kai)
 * Latvian: cālis, vista
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban:
 * Lower Sorbian: kokoš, kurje, kurjetko
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: fellus, tiġieġa
 * Marathi: कोम्डा (komdā)
 * Mazanderani:
 * Navajo:
 * Neapolitan: pùllo
 * Northern Sami: vuonccis
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Occitan: galina
 * Old English:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romani: kainiori, kaini
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: pulschain, giaglina
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sardinian: caboniscu, caboni, puddone, puddu
 * Scottish Gaelic: cearc
 * Serbian:, , , ,
 * Skolt Sami: kää´nn
 * Slovak: sliepka, kurča, kura (youngster)
 * Slovene: piščanec, petelin , kokoš  ,
 * Sotho: kgoho
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: manok
 * Tai Dam:
 * Taos: lìlúna
 * Telugu: కోడి
 * Thai: (gài)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Uab Meto:
 * Ukrainian: курча (kurča), курка (kurka)
 * Upper Sorbian: ćipka, kokoš, kurjo, kurjatko
 * Urdu: (murghi)
 * Vietnamese: gà
 * Volapük: gok,  higok,  jigok,  gokül
 * Welsh: cyw, iâr, cyw iâr
 * West Frisian: hin
 * Wolof: ganaar
 * Zazaki:


 * Afrikaans: hoendervleis
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: հավի միս
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:, пилешко
 * Burmese: ကြက်သား
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 鸡肉 (jīròu)
 * Mandarin: 雞肉
 * Min Nan:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: kuře
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: kanaliha
 * Ewe: koklolã
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: circeoil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: トリにく
 * Korean: 닭고기 (dakgogi), 치킨
 * Macedonian: пилешко
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: пилетина
 * Roman: piletina
 * Sotho: nama ya kgoho
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: manok


 * Armenian:, ղզիկ
 * Bulgarian: страхливец
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, kylling
 * Dutch:, , lafbek, angsthaas
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, poltron
 * German:


 * Greek: κότα
 * Hebrew: שפן
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: dredöfan,  hidredöfan,  jidredöfan,  dredajiedan,  dredahijiedan,  dredajijiedan


 * : kozh yar (2)

Adjective

 * 1) cowardly

Verb

 * 1)  To avoid as a result of fear.
 * 2)  To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.

Derived terms

 * chicken out
 * chicken legs

Anagrams

 * check in, check-in

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