4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chicken \Chick"en\, noun [AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock;
akin to LG. kiken, k["u]ken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G.
k["u]chkein. 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;
same as {spring chicken}. ''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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
chicken
adjective: easily frightened [syn: {chickenhearted}, {lily-livered}, {white-livered},
{yellow}, {yellow-bellied}]
noun
1: the flesh of a chicken used for food [syn: {poulet}, {volaille}]
2: a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have
been developed from the red jungle fowl [syn: {Gallus
gallus}]
3: a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
[syn: {wimp}, {crybaby}]
4: a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is
continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
281 Moby Thesaurus words for "chicken":
Ancona, Andalusian, Australorp, Bantam, Brahma, Campine, Cochin,
Cornish, Cornish hen, Hamburg, Hershey bar, Leghorn,
Lord Fauntleroy, Milquetoast, New Hampshire red, Orpington, Percy,
Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island red, Rock Cornish, Sumatra, Sussex,
afraid, anemic, asthenic, auntie, aviation badge, baby, back out,
badge, banty, bar, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, bi-guy, biddy,
big baby, bisexual, black Minorca, black Spanish, black Sumatra,
bloodless, blue Orpington, boggle, broiler, brooder, broody hen,
buff Orpington, bull dyke, butch, caille, canard, caneton, capon,
catamite, chanticleer, chapon, chevron, chick, chickabiddy,
chicken liver, chicken out, chickenhearted, chicky, cock, cockerel,
coward, cowardly, cowed, craven, cream puff, crybaby, dastard,
daunted, debilitated, desert under fire, dindon, dismayed,
domestic fowl, doormat, drake, drooping, droopy, duck, duckling,
dull, dull tool, dunghill fowl, dyke, eagle, effeminate, effete,
epaulet, etiolated, fag, faggot, faint, fainthearted, faintish,
fairy, faisan, falter, fearful, feeble, femme, flabby, flaccid,
flit, floppy, fowl, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, fricatrice, fruit,
fryer, funk, funk out, funker, funking, funky, game fowl, gander,
get cold feet, gobbler, gone, goody-goody, goose, gosling, grouse,
guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, gunsel, gutless,
gutless wonder, hash mark, hen, hen turkey, henhearted, homo,
homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, imbecile, impotent,
insignia of branch, intimidated, invert, invertebrate, jellyfish,
languid, languorous, lesbian, lightweight, lily, lily liver,
lily-livered, limber, limp, listless, lose courage, lustless,
marrowless, meek soul, milk-livered, milksop, milksoppish,
milksoppy, mollycoddle, mouse, mousy, muliebrous, namby-pamby,
nance, nancy, nebbish, nerveless, nonentity, oak leaf, oie,
old woman, old-womanish, organization insignia, overseas bar,
overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pansy, pantywaist,
parachute badge, partlet, partridge, patch, pathic, pheasant,
pigeon, pigeonhearted, pigeonneau, pip, pithless, poltroon,
poltroonish, pooped, poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, powerless,
prissy, pullet, punk, pushover, pusillanimous, quail, queen, queer,
quitter, rabbity, roaster, rooster, rubbery, sad sack, sapless,
sapphist, scaredy-cat, scuttle, service stripe, setting hen,
shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, sinewless, sissified,
sissy, sissyish, skedaddle, slack, soft, softling, softy, sop,
speckled Sussex, spineless, spread eagle, spring chicken,
spunkless, squab, star, stewing chicken, strengthless, stripe,
submarine badge, timid, timorous, tom, tom turkey, tribade, turkey,
turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, unhardened, unmanly, unmanned,
unnerved, unstrung, volaille, weak, weak sister, weak-kneed,
weakhearted, weakling, weakly, white Orpington,
white Plymouth Rock, white Wyandotte, white feather, white liver,
white-livered, wild duck, womanish, yellow
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Chicken, AK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alaska
Population (2000): 17
Housing Units (2000): 21
Land area (2000): 115.411025 sq. miles (298.913169 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 115.411025 sq. miles (298.913169 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13450
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 64.070738 N, 141.874894 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Chicken, AK
Chicken
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