Chicken
['tʃɪkɪn]
Definition
(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.
(adj.) easily frightened .
Checker: Micawber--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
(n.) A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden.
Checker: Sheena
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing a brood of chickens, denotes worry from many cares, some of which of which will prove to your profit. Young or half grown chickens, signify fortunate enterprises, but to make them so you will have to exert your physical strength. To see chickens going to roost, enemies are planning to work you evil. To eat them, denotes that selfishness will detract from your otherwise good name. Business and love will remain in precarious states.
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Examples
- I do not believe in ogres, soothsayers, fortune tellers, or chicken-crut gypsy witchcraft. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Briggs seized it mechanically, gasped it down convulsively, moaned a little, and began to play with the chicken on her plate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Cultures of chicken chol era virus kept for some time became less active. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I'm a thinkin whether Missis would be a havin a chicken pie o' dese yer. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Yer mind dat ar great chicken pie I made when we guv de dinner to General Knox? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Two easy chairs stood side by side at the head of the table, in which sat Beth and her father, feasting modestly on chicken and a little fruit. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- This yer's my nicest chicken. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Mrs. Shelby smiled as she saw a prostrate lot of chickens and ducks, over which Chloe stood, with a very grave face of consideration. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But this instinct retained by our chickens has become useless under domestication, for the mother-hen has almost lost by disuse the power of flight. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Snakes act on the same principle which makes the hen ruffle her feathers and expand her wings when a dog approaches her chickens. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In one instance it was reported that a few men of Sherman's army passed a house where they discovered some chickens under the dwelling. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The hens were pecking round it, some chickens were balanced on the drinking trough, wagtails flew away in among trucks, from the water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Chloe stood handling them over abstractedly; it was quite evident that the chickens were not what she was thinking of. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She apportioned the sweetbreads, jellies, chickens; their quantity and order. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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