chick

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A young bird.
2. A young chicken.
3. (colloquial) An attractive, young woman.
4. (slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.
5. (dated, endearing) A young child.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
2. To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.

Sinonieme

chicken

🐔

bird

🐦

nestling

doll

fledgling

young bird

young chicken

dame

baby bird

skirt

wench

babe

biddy

fledging

gal

bunny

girl

👧

hatchling

piece

pullet

tick

baby chicken

cock

baby

👶

dicky-bird

hen

🐔

infant

chirp

ostrich

tipu

poult

cuddle-bunny

rooster

🐓

child

🧒

sun-blind

teaser

teenybopper

teeny-bopper

birdlet

cat

😺

young man

broad

dickybird

eyeshade

venetian blind

young animal

blinder

bird

🐦

bamboo curtain

bamboo blind

Vertalings

poussin

pulcino

pollito

Küken

polluelo

kuiken

civciv

gonzesse

nana

oisillon

franguinha

Vogeljunges

pollo

🐔

pintinho

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/t͡ʃɪk/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: chicke

Geërf van Old English: ċicen

In summary

From Middle English chicke, chike, variation of chiken (“chicken", also "chick”), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”). Sense of "young woman" dates to at least 1860 (compare chit (“young, pert woman”)). More at chicken.