Meaning

1 senses
  1. (derogatory, informal, sometimes)Cowardly.

    Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.

More definitions
  • easily frightened

Examples

908 sentences
  1. The chicken laid an egg this morning.

    Курка сьогодні вранці знесла яйце. — deniko

    ruСегодня утром курица снесла яйцо. — odexed

    deDas Huhn hat heute Morgen ein Ei gelegt. — Manfredo

  2. I saw the old man feed his dog chicken bones.

    Я бачив, як старий годивав свого собаку куриними кісточками. — deniko

    ruЯ видел, как старик кормит свою собаку куриными костями. — sharptoothed

    deIch sah den alten Mann dabei, wie er Hühnerknochen an seinen Hund verfütterte. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

    Що було перше, курка чи яйце? — deniko

    ruЧто было раньше: яйцо или курица? — sharptoothed

    deWas war zuerst da: das Huhn oder das Ei? — samueldora

  4. She bought a chicken.

    Вона купила курку. — aandrusiak

    ruОна купила курицу. — sharptoothed

    deSie kaufte ein Huhn. — al_ex_an_der

  5. That meat is chicken.

    Це м'ясо — це курятина. — deniko

    ruЭто мясо - курятина. — Biga

    deDieses Fleisch ist Hühnchenfleisch. — lilygilder

Origin

From Middle English chiken (also as chike > English chick), from Old English ċicen, ċycen

From Middle English chiken (also as chike > English chick), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *kiukīn (“chicken”), or alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *kukkīn, equivalent to cock + -en.

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Forms

more chicken, most chicken
Comparativemore chicken Lesson
Superlativemost chicken Lesson

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Collocations

12 patterns
  • feed the chickens
  • chicken pox
  • chicken soup
  • like chicken
  • some chicken soup
  • eat chicken
  • fried chicken
  • catch the chicken
  • some chicken
  • the chicken was
  • love chicken
  • bought chicken

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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