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Definition: Chicken |
ChickenAdjective1. (informal) easily frightened. Noun1. The flesh of a chicken used for food. 2. A domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl. 3. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy. 4. A foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chicken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Fowl in which the tip of the sternum is flexible(not ossified). Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Chicken (plural chickens ). It is quite a mistake to suppose "chickens" to be a double plural. The Anglo-Saxon is cicen, plural cicen-u. We have a few plural forms in-en, as ox-en, brack-en, children, brethren, hosen, and eyen; but of these children and brethren are not the most ancient forms. "Chick" is a mere contraction of chicken. The old plural forms of "child" are child-r-e, dialectic child-er; children is a later form. The old plural forms of "brother" are brothru, brothre, brethre; later forms are brethren and brothres (now brothers). Children and chicken must always be pickin'. Are always hungry and ready to eat food. To count your chickens ere they are hatched (Hudibras). To anticipate profits before they come. One of Æsop's fables describes a market woman saying she would get so much for her eggs, with the money she would buy a goose; the goose in time would bring her so much, with which she would buy a cow, and so on; but in her excitement she kicked over her basket, and all her eggs were broken. The Latins said, "Don't sing your song of triumph before you have won the victory" (ante victoriam canere triumphum). "Don't crow till you are out of the wood" has a similar meaning. (See page 36, col. 2, Alnaschar's Dream) Curses like chickens come home to roost. (See under Curses) Mother Carey's chickens. (See Mother Carey) She's no chicken. Not young. The young child as well as the young fowl is called a chicken or chick. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Adjective (sometimes noun). Source: Unknown. Definition: A homosexual teenager. Context: Used when talking to another gay male about a younger gay male. Social Source: Homosexual Males ages 30 and up. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Domestic Chicken Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Galliformes Family: Phasianidae Genus: Gallus Species Gallus gallus
Gallus lafayetii
Gallus sonneratii
Gallus varius
Reference: 176085
as of 2002-08-17A chicken is a type of domesticated bird which is usually raised as a type of poultry. It is believed to be descended from the wild Asian Red Junglefowl, Gallus gallus.
Baby chickens (chicks)
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Alternate imageMale chickens, known as cockerels (if younger than one year old) or roosters, are common symbols of masculinity, and their natural inclination to fight has been exploited in staged cockfights, sometimes with a metal spike added to or replacing the natural spurs. Most countries have banned cockfighting.
Chicken can be prepared as food in a number of ways. Common traditional European/North-American methods include roasting, baking, and frying. Their eggs are also eaten.
Related Topics
- List of chicken breeds
Famous Chickens
- Mike The Headless Chicken
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Chicken is a town located in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town is 17.Geography
Chicken is located at 64°4'15" North, 141°52'30" West (64.070738, -141.874894)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 298.9 km² (115.4 mi²). 298.9 km² (115.4 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 17 people, 6 households, and 4 families residing in the town. The population density is 0.1/km² (0.1/mi²). There are 21 housing units at an average density of 0.1/km² (0.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 100.00% White, 0.00% Black or African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 6 households out of which 50.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.7% are married couples living together, 16.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 16.7% are non-families. 16.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 16.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.83 and the average family size is 3.00. In the town the population is spread out with 29.4% under the age of 18, 0.0% from 18 to 24, 35.3% from 25 to 44, 29.4% from 45 to 64, and 5.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 88.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 50.0 males. The median income for a household in the town is $66,250, and the median income for a family is $0. Males have a median income of $0 versus $0 for females. The per capita income for the town is $65,400. 0.0% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Chicken, Alaska."
Synonyms: ChickenSynonyms: chickenhearted (adj), lily-livered (adj), white-livered (adj), yellow (adj), yellow-bellied (adj), crybaby (n), poulet (n), volaille (n), wimp (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Bustling; restless, restless as a hyena; fussy, fidgety, pottering; busy, busy as hen with one chicken. |
Adolescence | Man; woman; adult, no chicken. |
Age | Turned of, years old; of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah; ancestral, patriarchal; (ancient); gerontic. |
Animal | Bird; poultry, fowl, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon. |
Infant | Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle. |
Pity | Merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian; (philanthropic); tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted; unhardened; lenient; exorable, forbearing; melting; Verb: weak. |
Sensibility | Adjective: sensible, sensitive; impressible, impressionable; susceptive, susceptible; alive to, impassionable, gushing; warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted; tender as a chicken; soft, sentimental, romantic; enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive; excitable; oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned; fastidious. |
Softness | Soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk; yielding as wax, tender as chicken. |
Weakness | On its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water; colorless. |
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Screenplays | I am glad you are late. This chicken took longer than I expected Hope it isn't done too much Of course, it caught on fire once I think it is better that I cut it out here, unless you want half of one for yourself (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht) Look, it's all completely chicken soup (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) I've been lookin' for your sweet and sour chicken ass. (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf) Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) It's a crazy chicken world (Mystery Men; writing credit: Kinka Usher, written by Bob Burden and Neil Cuthbert. Based on the comic book series.) | |
Lyrics | Chickity China the Chinese chicken (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) Yeah, them chicken coops was full'a bears (Convoy; performing artist: C.W. MCCALL) Chicken in a bread pan picken' out dough ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia"; performing artist: Charlie Daniels Band) I'm ASAP, I'm crack a don chicken hunting at KFC (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo) Jerk chicken on the grill, so make the champagne pour (Dance & Shout; performing artist: Shaggy) | |
Clever | The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. (references; author: Bob Hope) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Chicken Real (1970) The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) Chicken Hearted Wolf (1963) Running Around Like a Chicken with Its Head Cut Off (1960) Chicken in the Rough (1951) | |
Song Titles | Tastes Like Chicken (performing artist: Scatterbrain) CHICKEN DANCE (performing artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS) | |
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 | Three different shots of soup. (Campbells' Vegetable, Cream of Broccoli or Chicken Noodle). Shown with their respective cans. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | (6) color slides show different types of cooked chicken. (2) bowl of chicken and rice, (1) cooked piece of baked chicken, (1) chicken cutlet sandwich, (1) fried chicken drumstick, (1) sweet and sour chicken. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
 | Ptarmigan - Lagopus lagopus - the Arctic chicken. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Lesser prairie chicken in Eastern New Mexico. Credit: Gary Kramer. |
 | Eastern New Mexico rancher installed improved water sources to help improve range condition and wildlife habitat for lesser prairie chicken. Credit: Gary Kramer. |  | African American owned chicken operation in Perry County, MS is visited by Ben Burkette, Executive Director of the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives. Operation was set up with the aid of a Rural Business loan. Credit: USDA. |
 | Chicken Oven roasted chicken at the Mapledale Giant in Dale City, VA. Credit: USDA. |  | Chicks atop a picture of a genetic map of a chicken. The chicken genome has 39 pairs of chromosomes, whereas the human genome contains 23 pairs. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Peggy Greb.. |
 | Living quarters, BLM compound, Chicken, Alaska. Credit: Unknown. |  | BLM Chicken Field Station. Credit: Unknown. |
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| "Chicken wings" by G G Commentary: "Deep fried wings." | "Boneless Chicken" by Nate Nolting Commentary: "Ckicken packaging with type." |
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 | Pig grunting, chicken clucking, dog barking, and other animals vocalizing in the barnyard. | | Chicken coop sounds of roosters and chickens. |
| Chicken coop; clucking. | | Chicken clucking. |
| Chicken clucking. | | One chicken cluck. |
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Henry Ford | Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets. |
Henry IV | I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Invite him to dinner, Emma, and help him to the best of the fish and the chicken, but leave him to chuse his own wife |
Last Chance To See | Douglas Adams | Kiri explained that she was wrong and that she preferred chicken to fish |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At this moment the chicken voice of little Gavroche resounded through the barricade |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Granma hopped about like a chicken. |
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Health | Meat, fish, and chicken are good sources of protein. (references) | |
Their biggest danger is chicken pox which can be deadly. (references) | ||
Even one drop of juice from raw chicken meat can infect a person. (references) | ||
Business | Examples include Avis (340 car rental agencies), Kentucky Fried Chicken (7 company-owned fast food restaurants), and Best Western (170 hotels). (references) | |
Many companies, especially joint venture food producing companies, import chicken meat to further process in China, and China exports meat to their neighbors, mainly Japan. (references) | ||
Pork is the most common meat in the Chinese diet (accounts for around 67.5% of total meat consumption) but beef (8%), mutton (4.5%), and chicken (poultry 20%) are growing in popularity. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ghana | Chicken forms about 13 percent of the imports. (references) |
Kuwait | Chicken parts are imported in two-pound trays. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Most local chicken production is inefficient and expensive. (references) | |
Human Rights | Trinidad and Tobago | Diseases such as chicken pox, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and viruses spread easily, and prisoners sometimes must purchase their own medication. (references) |
Political Economy | COSTA RICA | These restrictions have been used to limit the importation of U.S. chicken products in 2001. (references) |
SOUTH AFRICA | In a December 2000 ruling, the BTT reaffirmed the dumping duties on chicken pieces imported from the United States. (references) | |
Trade | Honduras | Other import restrictions are applied to chicken meat and cosmetics. (references) |
Malaysia | Imports of chicken parts are regulated through licensing and sanitary controls. (references) | |
Nicaragua | The import duties on a few items are so high (e.g., chicken parts with a 170 percent tariff) that sales here may not be feasible. (references) | |
Travel | Qatar | Chicken and beef are also widely available. (references) |
Guyana | Chicken, beef and excellent seafood are available. (references) | |
Egypt | The primary meat products are chicken, beef and lamb. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system -- an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare. |
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Dennis Miller | Strawberry Zinfandel goes with Filet o' Fish or Chicken McNuggets while Boone's Blackberry Ridge should be reserved for McRibb or a Quarter Pounder. |
Jon Stewart | That's what I'm saying, because you know our government goes away, meat will still be inspected, to a certain extent. Maybe not pork, maybe they are just going with beef, maybe chicken, maybe turkey, maybe they pick one meat. It is a shadow government. |
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| "Chicken" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.99% of the time. "Chicken" is used about 1,888 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.99% | 1,850 | 4,603 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.27% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.37% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.26% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,888 | N/A |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan Ltd. | South Africa | Rainbow Chicken Limited |
| USA | Boston Chicken, Inc. | ||
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Expressions using "chicken": be chicken ♦ boiled chicken ♦ busy as hen with one chicken ♦ Chernobyl chicken ♦ chicken and rice ♦ Chicken Anemia Virus ♦ chicken breast ♦ chicken broth ♦ chicken cacciatora ♦ chicken cacciatore ♦ chicken casserole ♦ Chicken cholera ♦ chicken coop ♦ chicken cordon bleu ♦ chicken drumstick ♦ chicken farm ♦ chicken farming ♦ chicken feed ♦ chicken fight ♦ chicken gumbo ♦ chicken hawk ♦ chicken head ♦ chicken heart ♦ chicken hearted ♦ chicken Kiev ♦ chicken leg ♦ chicken Little ♦ chicken liver ♦ chicken louse ♦ chicken manure ♦ chicken Marengo ♦ chicken mousse ♦ chicken out ♦ chicken paprika ♦ chicken paprikash ♦ chicken pie ♦ chicken pox ♦ chicken purloo ♦ chicken roost ♦ chicken roundworm ♦ chicken run ♦ chicken salad ♦ chicken sandwich ♦ chicken snake ♦ chicken soup ♦ chicken stew ♦ chicken stock ♦ chicken taco ♦ chicken Tetrazzini ♦ chicken thigh ♦ chicken trimmings ♦ chicken wing ♦ chicken wire ♦ chicken yard ♦ cleaning and trussing a chicken ♦ frozen chicken ♦ greater prairie chicken ♦ ground chicken ♦ gunpowder chicken ♦ hunter's chicken ♦ laser chicken ♦ lesser prairie chicken ♦ Maryland chicken ♦ meadow chicken ♦ mother Carey's chicken ♦ no chicken ♦ Pharaoh's chicken ♦ pintailed chicken ♦ play chicken ♦ prairie chicken ♦ roast chicken ♦ roasted chicken ♦ spring chicken ♦ tender as chicken ♦ water chicken ♦ wave a dead chicken. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "chicken": chicken-and-egg, chicken-and-ham, chicken-based, chicken-bone, Chicken-breasted, chicken-burger, chicken-dropping, chicken-ducks, chicken-egg, chicken-farming, chicken-feed, chicken-flicker, chicken-free, Chicken-hearted, chicken-houses, chicken-incubating, chicken-killers, chicken-killing, chicken-leg, chicken-licken, chicken-liver, chicken-livered, chicken-neck, chicken-pens, chicken-pox, chicken-processing, chicken-producing, chicken-rearing, chicken-ribs, chicken-sized, chicken-wire, chicken-wired. | |
Ending with "chicken": anti-chicken, fried-chicken, funky-chicken, game-chicken, non-chicken. | |
Containing "chicken": chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
chicken | 4,946 | barbecue chicken recipe | 319 |
chicken recipe | 4,493 | chicken pox picture | 313 |
chicken pox | 3,495 | chicken dumplings | 300 |
kentucky fried chicken | 1,877 | chicken wings | 296 |
beer can chicken | 895 | chicken curry | 284 |
chicken invader | 883 | chicken breed | 283 |
fried chicken recipe | 721 | chicken dance | 275 |
chicken salad recipe | 618 | baked chicken recipe | 270 |
chicken coop | 575 | chicken soup | 269 |
chicken salad | 543 | chicken parmesan | 257 |
chicken popeyes | 530 | chicken enchiladas | 254 |
chicken marsala | 475 | easy chicken recipe | 250 |
chicken soup for the soul | 470 | chicken marsala recipe | 247 |
chicken breast recipe | 465 | beer butt chicken | 241 |
fried chicken | 412 | chicken casserole | 241 |
super chicken | 410 | churchs chicken | 240 |
barbecue chicken | 384 | grilled chicken recipe | 237 |
chicken ranch | 378 | beer chicken | 225 |
chicken picture | 366 | chicken marinade | 225 |
raising chicken | 332 | 2 chicken invader | 223 |
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| Language | Translations for "chicken"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | hoender (fowl, hen), hen (fowl). (various references) | |
Albanian | zogëz (Dickey, dicky, duck, ducky, nestling), zogë (chick, poult, pullet), zog pule (broiler, chick, springer), vajzë (babe, child, colleen, damsel, daughter, demoiselle, female, gal, girl, girlie, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, Miss, petticoat, puss, unmarried girl, wench), pulë (fowl, hen), mish pule (fowl), frikash (lily livered, quitter). (various references) | |
Arabic | فقد أعصابه (rattle), فروج, مصر على تطبيق البذائة, لحم الدجاج (fowl), جبان (apprehensive, chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, cur, faint, fearful, fearsome, funk, funky, heartless, lily livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, pusillanimous, scared, sheepish, shy, sissified, sissy, spiritless, timid, timorous, tremulous, unmanly, weak-kneed), شخص جبان (craven), دجاجة (hen). (various references) | |
Asturian | pitu. (various references) | |
Aymara | chiuchi. (various references) | |
Bavarian | giggal (hen). (various references) | |
Bemba | inkoko. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ярка (pullet), страхливец (chicken-liver, coward, dastard, faintheart, funk, yellow belly, yellow dog), страхлив (chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, dastardly, fainthearted, fearful, funky, hen-hearted, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, recreant, sissy, spiritless), неопитен човек (spring chicken, youngling), месо от домашна птица, млад човек (youth), пилешко месо, пилешки, пиле (chick, duck, lamb, peeper), изплашен (afraid, all shook-up, frightened, frightening, jittery, panicky, planet-stricken, planet-struck, shook-up, streaky, timorous, windy), изискващ прекалена дисциплина, дете (bairn, child, kid, offspring, olive branch, seal of love). (various references) | |
Catalan | pollastre (fowl), gallina (fowl). (various references) | |
Cebuano | manok. (various references) | |
Chamorro | mannok. (various references) | |
Chinese | 雞 (fowl, osprey), 鸡. (various references) | |
Cornish | mabyar. (various references) | |
Czech | zbabìlec (coward, faint-heart, poltroon, turn back, turnback), slepice (fowl, hen), kuře (chick). (various references) | |
Danish | høne (fowl, hen). (various references) | |
Dutch | kip (fowl, hen, kip), kuiken (chick), kippevlees (hen), hoen (fowl). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | atallpa aicha, atallpa. (various references) | |
Esperanto | koko (fowl), kokino (fowl), kokido (chick), kokaĵo (hen). (various references) | |
Faeroese | høna (fowl). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرنده کوچک , مردجوان (Imp), ناازموده (Clumsy, Fresh, Simple, Ungainly, Untried), کمرو (Cagey, Chary, Coy, Meticulous, Sheepish, Shy, Timid, Unassertive), جوجه مرغ , بچه (Baby, Bairn, Chick, Child, Chit, Infant, Kid, Peewee, Tiddledywinks). (various references) | |
Finnish | kananpoika (broiler). (various references) | |
Flemish | kip. (various references) | |
French | poulet, poussin (chick, chicks), poule. (various references) | |
Frisian | hin (fowl). (various references) | |
German | Huhn (fowl, hen, poult, pullet), küken (baby of the family, chick, chickens, chicks, fledgelings, fledgling, fledglings, young goose, youngest child), Hähnchen (chockerel, cockerel), hühnchen (pullet). (various references) | |
Greek | κοτόπουλο (pullet). (various references) | |
Guarani | ryguasu. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תרנגולת (hen), אפרוח (chick, fledgling, nestling), בשר עוף. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tyúk (fowl, hen, jane, twist), csirke, csibe (chick, poult). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penakut (coward, dastard, funk), ayam, anak ayam (chick). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | aqikiqjuaq, aqigiqjuaq. (various references) | |
Irish | cearc (fowl). (various references) | |
Italian | pollo (fowl), pollastro (cockerel, juvenile, young, young rooster), gallina (bantam, fowl, guinea fowl, hen). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鶏 , 若鶏 (chick), チオ硫酸ナトリウム (chicken cutlet, chicken with rice, sodium thiosulfate, thixomolding). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | チキン , にわとり, わかどり (chick). (various references) | |
Kongo | nsusu. (various references) | |
Korean | 신병. (various references) | |
Lombard | pollaster (chick). (various references) | |
Macedonian | pilesko, kokoska. (various references) | |
Malay | ayam (fowl), anak ayam (chick). (various references) | |
Manx | feill chirkey. (various references) | |
Maori | pii (bee, pea). (various references) | |
Maya | kaax (forest). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kylling (chick), høne (fowl, hen). (various references) | |
Papago | chuchul. (various references) | |
Papiamen | puítu (chick), galiña (fowl). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickenchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | galinha (fowl, hen), frango (fowl, hen, poult). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | chicken, galinha. (various references) | |
Provencal | polet. (various references) | |
Romanian | cocoş (chanticleer, cockerel, rooster), pui (aerie, baby, calf, chick, chuck, cub, dear, fledgeling, get, nestling, whelp, young), gãinã (fowl, hen). (various references) | |
Romansch | pulaster. (various references) | |
Romany | havrì. (various references) | |
Ruanda | inkoko. (various references) | |
Russian | юнец (shaver, stripling), цыпленок куриный, цыпленок (chick, chickling, chuck, peeper, poult, springer), трус (caitiff, capon, chicken-liver, coward, dastard, faintheart, faint-heart, funk, milksop, pikelet, piker, poltroon, rat, recreant, yellow dog), курятина, курица (hen), птенец (cheeper, chick, fledgling, nestling, poult, squealer). (various references) | |
Samoan | moa. (various references) | |
Scottish | isean (a chicken, chick, young of birds and). (various references) | |
Sepedi | tswiana. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | piletina, pileći, pile (chick). (various references) | |
Shona | hukwana. (various references) | |
Sicilian | gaddina. (various references) | |
Spanish | pollo (chick, fowl, poult), gallina (chicken hearted, fowl, funk, hen, sissy). (various references) | |
Swahili | kuku (fowl). (various references) | |
Swazi | lí-ntjwêle. (various references) | |
Swedish | kyckling (chick, poult), höna (fowl, goose, hen), höns (fowl, fowls, hens, poultry). (various references) | |
Tagalog | manok, manók (fowl). (various references) | |
Thai | เนื้อไก่, ไก่, คนที่ขี้ขลาด, ขี้ขลาด (chickenhearted, chicken-hearted, coward, cowardly, faint-hearted, lily-livered, pusillanimous, tame). (various references) | |
Turkish | tavuk (fowl, hen). (various references) | |
Turkmen | towuk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | курятина, курча (chick, chuck, poult), курка (hen), молода курочка, молодий півник, пташеня (cheeper, chick, nestling, poult, pout, squeaker, squealer). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | gà con (chick). (various references) | |
Welsh | cyw (chick, young bird), iar (fowl). (various references) | |
Yucatec | xkaax (fowl), kaax (fowl). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cicer, gallina, Gallus domesticus, pulli, pullis, pullorum, pullos, pullum, pullus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | cicen. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chicken": chickened, chickenhearted, chickening, chickenpox, chickenpoxes, chickens. (additional references) | |
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"Chicken" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chaykin, checkin, cheeken, Cheicko, Chichen, chicka, chickee, chickin, Chieke, Chikan, chikeee, chiken, Chikreng, chimkent, chipko, chirkin, chuck'em, Cuiken, Kicken, Mcdicken, schachen, Schaecken, Schucksen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chicken" (pronounced khi"kun) |
| 4 | -i" k u n | quicken, sicken, stricken, thicken. |
| 3 | -k u n | falcon, awaken, bacon, beacon, beckon, blacken, bracken, broken, darken, deacon, drunken, forsaken, gascon, harken, heartbroken, housebroken, interleukin, lichen, liken, Macon, misspoken, mistaken, outspoken, overtaken, Pekin, pelican, Pipkin, pumpkin, reawaken, reckon, republican, retaken, second, shaken, shrunken, silicon, slacken, spoken, sunken, taken, token, unbroken, undertaken, unshaken, unspoken, waken, weaken, woken, zircon. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-i-k-n" | |
-2 letters: check, chick, chine, chink, cinch, kench, niche. | |
-3 letters: chic, chin, cine, heck, hick, hike, inch, kine, neck, nice, nick. | |
-4 letters: chi, hen, hic, hie, hin, ice, ich, ick, ink, ken, khi, kin. | |
-5 letters: eh, en, he, hi, in, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-h-i-k-n" | |
+1 letter: checking, chickens, pincheck. | |
+2 letters: checkrein, chickened, pinchbeck, pinchecks, raincheck. | |
+3 letters: checkering, checkpoint, checkreins, chickening, chickenpox, cockneyish, pinchbecks, rainchecks, rechecking. | |
+4 letters: checkmating, checkpoints, checkrowing, neckerchief, prechecking. | |
+5 letters: bodychecking, checkmarking, chickenpoxes, forechecking, neckerchiefs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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