chicken

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈt͡ʃɪkɪn/    美 /ˈt͡ʃɪkɪn/|/ˈt͡ʃɪkən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus). countable
    — backyard chickens
  2. plural of chick UK,dialectal,form-of,obsolete,plural
    — The 21 or 22 day the Chicken are hatch'd; […]
  3. The meat from this bird eaten as food. uncountable
    — boneless chicken
  4. The young of any bird; a chick. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — There they are – four ugly little chickens, a bit more than half-feathered, and all gaping mouths and bare bellies.
  5. A coward. countable,derogatory,slang,sometimes
    — 'Why, what a chicken you are! You are not afraid of being robbed; are you?' said Jonas.
  6. A young or inexperienced person. countable,derogatory,slang,sometimes
    — Purſue your trade of ſcandal-picking, Your hints, that Stella is no chicken: Your innuendos, when you tell us, That Stella loves to talk with fellows; […]
  7. A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk. Polari,countable
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  8. The game of dare. uncountable
  9. The game of dare.; A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the "chicken" (that is, the loser). countable,uncountable
    — Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
  10. A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated. countable,uncountable
  11. A kilogram of cocaine. US,countable,slang,uncountable
    — Up early in the morning trappin' (Trap-trap) You can get 'em how you askin' (Ask) How many chickens? You can get 'em whichever way Nigga, trap turned Zaxby's (Zax)
  12. A small pewter pot used in a tavern. countable,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To avoid a situation one is afraid of. intransitive
    — For the umpteenth time, I chickened.
形容词 adj.
  1. Cowardly. derogatory,informal,sometimes
    — Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.

词形变化

chickens plural more chicken comparative most chicken superlative chickens present,singular,third-person chickening participle,present chickened participle,past chickened past

词汇关系

近义词
biddy chook
下位词
cock cockerel rooster hen chick broiler
衍生词
a chicken in every pot act chicken antichicken Attwater's prairie chicken Balmoral chicken bam bam chicken bang bang chicken beer-butt chicken beer-can chicken beggar's chicken bin chicken Blue Hen's Chicken Bombay chicken bon bon chicken bourbon chicken brick chicken broiler chicken brown stew chicken butter chicken caramel chicken chicken 65 chicken-65 chickenability chicken à la king chicken and egg chicken-and-egg chicken-and-eggish chicken-and-egg problem chicken and egg question chicken-and-egg question chicken-and-egg situation chickenarian chicken ball chicken Balmoral chicken bingo chicken bit chicken bog chickenboner chicken breast chicken-breasted chicken brick chickenburger chicken burger chicken bus chicken button chicken cannon chicken cholera chicken colonel chicken coop chicken cordon bleu chicken cutlet chicken cutlet Kiev-style chicken cutlet Kyiv-style chicken dance chickeneater chicken farmer chicken-feed chicken feed chicken feet chicken fight chicken filet chicken fillet chicken finger chicken-fried chicken-fried steak chicken from hell chickenfucker chickenfurter chicken gun chicken hawk chickenhawk chicken-hazard chickenhead chicken-heart chicken-hearted chicken-heartedly chicken-heartedness chickenhood chicken-house chicken house chickenhouse chicken-in-a-basket circuit chickenish chickenize chicken Kiev chicken Kiev-style chicken Kyiv chicken Kyiv-style chicken ladder chicken lane chicken leg chickenless chickenlike chickenlips Chicken Little chicken liver chicken-liver chicken-livered chicken lollipop chicken louse chicken mami chickenman chicken Marengo chicken Maryland chicken mushroom chicken-neck chicken noodle soup chicken nugget chicken of the sea chicken of the woods chicken or egg chicken-or-egg question chicken or egg question chicken oriental chicken paw chicken pest chicken pill chicken-pox chicken pox chickenpox chicken pox party chicken rice chicken roll chicken run chickenry chicken salad chicken salad air chicken salt chicken scratch chicken shell chickenshit chicken-shit chicken shop chicken sickle chicken skin chicken snake chicken soup chickenspike chicken stakes chicken strips chicken switch chicken tender chicken throne chicken tractor chicken-turtle chicken turtle chicken under a brick chicken Wellington chicken wing chicken-wing chicken wire chickenwort chickeny chickenyard Chinese chicken salad choke the chicken choking the chicken Chongqing chicken chuckey churkey Circassian chicken city chicken cobra chicken cola chicken coronation chicken Digby chicken drunken chicken engagement chicken fire chicken firecracker chicken Frankenchicken fried chicken fried chicken mushroom game of chicken gay chicken General's chicken General Tao chicken General Tao's chicken General Tso chicken General Tso's chicken gooducken greater prairie chicken gunpowder chicken Hainanese chicken rice Hamburg chicken Hamburgh chicken headless chicken monster hell chicken hen and chicken Hen and Chicken Islands hot chicken huli-huli chicken hunter's chicken kampong chicken Kangean chicken Kiev-style chicken Kiev-style chicken cutlet Kyiv-style chicken Kyiv-style chicken cutlet last chicken in the shop lemon chicken lesser prairie chicken like a chicken on a June bug like a chicken with its head cut off like a chicken with its head off like a chicken with no head like a chicken with the pip like a headless chicken marry me chicken Maryland chicken Monterey chicken Mother Carey's chicken mountain chicken Nashville hot chicken nonchicken no spring chicken orange chicken Pharaoh's chicken play chicken popcorn chicken prairie chicken prairie chicken dance river chicken rubber chicken run around like a chicken with its head cut off sage chicken Samsui chicken spherical chicken spring chicken Texas chicken turducken turken water chicken Wenchang chicken
相关词
egg poultry 🐔

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *keukô
Proto-Germanic *kukkaz
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
Proto-West Germanic *kiukīn?
Proto-Germanic *kukkīną?
Old English ċicen
Middle English chiken
English chicken
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”).
词源 2
Shortening of chicken out.
词源 3
Etymology tree
English chick
English -en
English chicken
From chick + -en (plural ending).
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