chicken

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.
2. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
3. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The young of any bird; a chick.
4. (countable, derogatory, slang, sometimes) A coward.
5. (countable, derogatory, slang, sometimes) A young or inexperienced person.
6. (Polari, countable) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
7. (uncountable) The game of dare.
8. (countable, uncountable) The game of dare.
9. (countable, uncountable) A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
10. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) A kilogram of cocaine.
11. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A small pewter pot used in a tavern.

Adj

Cowardly.

Verb

To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

Conceptos

pollo

🐔

gallina

🐔

cobarde

gallo

🐓

miedoso

😨

medroso

😨

ave

🐦

pata de gallina

gallus gallus

medrosa

gallina

🐔

Gallo (vira koko), gallina (por kokino)

pollito

polluelo

ave de corral

miedosa

temeroso

😨

Sinónimos

fowl

hen

🐔

coward

chick

bird

🐦

rooster

🐓

wimp

yellow

poultry

fearful

😨

scaredy-cat

cock

cowardly

white-livered

chickenhearted

craven

yellow-bellied

chook

broiler

owl

🦉

pig

🐖

pullet

dove

🕊️

recreant

spider

🕷️

spineless

spring chicken

timid

faint-hearted

wuss

poulet

volaille

cockerel

Gallus gallus

gizzard

lily-livered

crybaby

sheep

🐑

ass

🍑

baby

👶

biddy

billet-doux

clitoris

coot

dog

🐕

domestic fowl

etc.

female

♀️

frier

fryer

Traducciones

poulet

🐔

poule

🐔

Huhn

🐔

pollo

🐔

kip

🐔

κοτόπουλο

galinha

🐔

frango

pollastre

Hühnchen

gallina

🐔

Hähnchen

tavuk

🐔

gallina

🐔

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃɪkɪn/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: chiken

Cognado con inglés: chick

Heredado de inglés antiguo: ċicen

Cognado con frisón septentrional: schückling

Cognado con Saterfriesisch: Sjuuken

Cognado con neerlandés: kuiken

Cognado con alemán: Küken

Cognado con alemán: Küchlein

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: kjúklingr

In summary

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.
Compare North Frisian schückling (“chicken”), Saterland Frisian Sjuuken (“chicken”), Dutch kuiken (“chick, chicken”), German Low German Küken (“chick”), whence German Küken (“chick”), (elevated, obsolete) German Küchlein (“chick”) and Old Norse kjúklingr (“chicken”).