chick

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. A young bird.
2. A young chicken.
3. A young child.
4. (colloquial) A young, typically attractive, woman or teenage girl.
5. (slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.

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.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/t͡ʃɪk/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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.