chicken

Meaning

Noun

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

Adj

Cowardly.

Verb

To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

Concepts

chicken

fowl

hen

coward

chick

bird

rooster

wimp

yellow

poultry

fearful

cock

scaredy-cat

cowardly

craven

chickenhearted

white-livered

yellow-bellied

chook

pig

cockerel

faint-hearted

spineless

timid

recreant

lily-livered

Gallus gallus

poulet

volaille

crybaby

spring chicken

pullet

gizzard

broiler

wuss

dove

spider

owl

ass

baby

billet-doux

red junglefowl

gallinaceous

young hen

clitoris

female

domestic fowl

coot

moorhen

fawl

grouse

frier

fryer

biddy

Milquetoast

poltroon

quaker

chicken meat

etc.

fish

expression

dom

chicken-shit

funk

yellow-belly

rooster 雌鶏 hen

pansy

pussy

hen's

dog

sheep

milquetoast

wild goose

Hyphenated as

chick‧en

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃɪkɪn/

Etymology

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”).