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Definition of chicken in English: chickennoun ˈtʃɪkɪnˈtʃɪkən 1A domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one. 鸡（尤指小鸡） rationing was still in force and most people kept chickens Example sentencesExamples - The disappearance of chickens in many farmyards and back gardens must have reduced the availability of food.
- Domesticated animals such as chickens and pigs were raised in the same area.
- As birds go, the domestic chicken is hardly built for high-performance flight.
- Everyone has seen at least a few gallinaceous birds, since domesticated chicken and turkeys are in this category.
- Three younger girls chase a chicken around in circles.
- However, the animals sacrificed in these rites have been chickens and hens.
- For example, chickens and turkeys can escape most of the harms just described.
- We walked very quietly around the yard to try and find the chickens and roosters who were hiding in one of the stables.
- I understand, and have seen at first hand on several occasions what a fox can do to a flock of chickens, or other domestic fowl.
- The male chickens have dark yellow feet whereas the female chickens have light yellow feet.
- This brief summary demonstrates the level of understanding that has been gained in studying the scutate scales of the chicken.
- Just as it sounds, a fertile egg has been fertilized by a male chicken and could potentially become a chick.
- He tried his medicine on young chickens which were given the concoction twice a week.
- This mighty bird, the chicken of chickens, is brilliantly colored with feathers of red, green, brown, black, and gold.
- As per traditional Indian thinking, seeing a brood of chickens along with a hen is a bad omen.
- When it comes to making a sacrificial gift to the gods, they prefer to slaughter a male chicken.
- She lived on the top floor while all her hens and chickens clucked happily on the ground level.
- Each of the three compartments contained either a chicken, a rooster or an egg.
- Most of us think we're familiar with the sounds of the domestic chicken, but not all fowl calls are created equal.
- The Portuguese introduced the domestic pig, chickens, olives, and salt cod as well as coffee and tea.
- 1.1mass noun Meat from a chicken.
烤鸡肉。 Example sentencesExamples - The decline was more pronounced among women who ate a high percentage of non-dairy animal protein, such as red meat, chicken, turkey and pork.
- The sauce is good served with roast chicken, steak or grilled fish.
- The meats consisted of soft shelled crab covered in spices, tender roast beef and chicken.
- Some braised beef or roast chicken, for example, would be a welcome addition.
- These people tended to avoid red meat but ate chicken and fish.
- This includes all previously allowed items plus red meat, chicken, and well-cooked vegetables.
- Roast beef, chicken, seafood, steak, and savory stews were among the typical fare.
- They were also asked to decrease intake of red meat, substituting chicken, fish, and skim milk as protein sources.
- The sauce also goes well with leftover roast, chicken, turkey or ham.
- This tells us that she won't eat red meat, chicken, pork, fish or seafood.
- The main course was a pristine roast chicken with herbs and bacon and mashed potatoes along with mixed vegetables.
- When I am given a choice of meats, I choose white meat such as chicken or fish over steak.
- Concentrate on eating vegetables, fruits and whole grains, and choose chicken rather than red meat.
- My husband and I don't eat red meat or chicken; my parents, who do, call us ‘vegetarians.’
- Smoke rose from the center, where open fires roasted chicken and other meats.
- The main types of meat are pork, chicken, and mutton.
- Corn, rice, and peas are eaten with meats such as chicken, fish, pork, and beef.
- The preferred meat is mutton, but chicken, beef, and camel also are consumed.
- We had a delicious meal of steak, roast chicken, mashed potatoes and salad.
- Believe me, the beef, pork, chicken and other meats are very expensive.
2informal mass noun A game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser. 〈非正式〉看谁胆小（一种第一个胆怯退缩的人为输家的游戏） he was killed by a car after he lay in the road playing chicken Example sentencesExamples - Bondholders are playing a dangerous game of chicken because they feel they have little to lose.
- I talked to Seth today about it and he just laughed and told me they were playing a game of chicken and truth or dare.
- In the game, it becomes more like a game of chicken, with the enemy ship trying to charge and ram you almost from the first moment you come across one another.
- It was just like the game of chicken - someone would have to back out first.
- What we have here is an intriguing game of chicken.
- The scheduled sessions had gone badly, both men playing a game of chicken as they moved from one contentious issue to another.
- As I write this, the game of chicken is in maximum overdrive.
- This is not a some kind of macho game of chicken to show we have our resolve.
- It's like a game of chicken - car racing toward car, head-on - who would back down?
- I think it's sort of a game of chicken until then.
- It's a game of political chicken within the Republican party.
- Who will survive the ultimate game of slow motion chicken?
- Buses and trucks play a game of chicken, oblivious to the concept of traffic lanes.
- It looked like a game of chicken as both shifted to tackle positions.
- It's like we're playing a game of chicken in reverse.
- If that is not enough then maybe the driver will engage you with a pleasant game of chicken.
- This is prime land, housing here would fetch huge prices and so, for a quarter of a century, a sort of big business game of chicken has developed.
- Since then, the two men have been engaged in a game of chicken.
- The best of these is at a lumber yard, where groups of fighters need to balance on the logs in a death defying game of chicken.
- 2.1count noun A coward.
懦夫，胆小鬼 Example sentencesExamples - You're right - I am a chicken, scared of everything and anything.
- Candy was right, Jane was being a coward and chicken.
adjectiveˈtʃɪkɪnˈtʃɪkən informal predicative Cowardly. 懦夫，胆小鬼 I was too chicken to go to court Synonyms easily frightened, lacking courage, fearful, apprehensive, afraid, frightened, scared, faint-hearted
verb ˈtʃɪkɪnˈtʃɪkən [no object]chicken outinformal Withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve. 〈非正式〉（因胆怯）从…退缩；在…上失败 the referee chickened out of giving a penalty 裁判因胆小没有判罚。 Example sentencesExamples - Maybe you'll intend to come clean but chicken out.
- The advantage is that you can spend as much time as you like modifying the configuration and activate it in just a couple of keystrokes - or not, if you chicken out.
- The course doesn't start until May, so there's still time to chicken out, if need be.
- The person who told me this says that there's still time for someone to chicken out and cancel or postpone.
- Obviously this will be open to horrendous abuse, so I might chicken out at the last moment.
- Every time I try to talk to her, I just chicken out.
- Don't tell me you all came this far just to chicken out?
- But every time I almost get up the nerve to go and speak to her, I chicken out.
- I just had to push you into the crowd first because I knew you would chicken out and not jump.
- I thought you would chicken out, I didn't really mean for you to do it.
- If the corporate talking heads don't chicken out, this could be fun.
- I'm going to chicken out on this one, and keep all my punchlines to myself.
- I'd never seen anything quite like that, and half of me is afraid of what he will do, and half of me is afraid he will chicken out at the last second.
- ‘We'll keep her just in case you decide to chicken out on us,’ Regis said.
- Make sure you don't chicken out on the rollercoaster though, as it's an experience-and-a-half.
- I don't want to chicken out, but finally I say ‘Man, this is hard work.’
- So it will not surprise you if I chicken out of making predictions.
- They're the ones who may change their minds or chicken out.
- ‘You'd better not chicken out at the last minute again,’ she warned him.
- She said, ‘We need to raise a better generation that won't chicken out.’
Phrasesinformal In a panic-stricken and unthinking manner. players were running about like headless chickens, going in different directions Example sentencesExamples - Sometimes I find myself sitting around the house doing very little, others I seem to be rushing around like a headless chicken.
- Once I was finished grabbing all of the things I needed I continued to run around my practically empty apartment like a headless chicken.
- While I might not be rushing around like a headless chicken, I probably would be if I was doing all that I should.
- I'm over the moon she is back even though I am running around like a headless chicken after her.
- Do you ever get days when you're running round like a headless chicken?
- I can't wait until this wedding is over, Becky is running around like a headless chicken!
- After all, I looked like a headless chicken, running around in panic.
- He's been like a headless chicken for weeks now, studying and doing his exams, he's hardly slept and he's hardly eaten.
- She's not running around like a headless chicken on a minefield.
- When she opened her eyes, she saw him scrambling around in the lit room like a headless chicken, but in a much more noisy frenzy.
OriginOld English cīcen, cȳcen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kieken and German Küchlein, and probably also to cock1. A word that probably has the same ancient root as cock. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched is recorded from the 16th century, and refers to one of Aesop's fables of 2,000 years earlier, in which a girl carrying a pail of milk to market dreams about buying chickens with the profit from the milk and becoming rich through selling eggs. In her daydream she sees herself as being so wealthy that she would simply toss her head at all her would-be lovers, at which point she tosses her head and spills the milk. Chickens coming home to roost is a form of the proverb, dating from the 14th century, curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
Definition of chicken in US English: chickennounˈCHikənˈtʃɪkən 1A domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one. 鸡（尤指小鸡） Example sentencesExamples - Most of us think we're familiar with the sounds of the domestic chicken, but not all fowl calls are created equal.
- However, the animals sacrificed in these rites have been chickens and hens.
- For example, chickens and turkeys can escape most of the harms just described.
- This brief summary demonstrates the level of understanding that has been gained in studying the scutate scales of the chicken.
- The Portuguese introduced the domestic pig, chickens, olives, and salt cod as well as coffee and tea.
- Each of the three compartments contained either a chicken, a rooster or an egg.
- When it comes to making a sacrificial gift to the gods, they prefer to slaughter a male chicken.
- Domesticated animals such as chickens and pigs were raised in the same area.
- He tried his medicine on young chickens which were given the concoction twice a week.
- This mighty bird, the chicken of chickens, is brilliantly colored with feathers of red, green, brown, black, and gold.
- I understand, and have seen at first hand on several occasions what a fox can do to a flock of chickens, or other domestic fowl.
- We walked very quietly around the yard to try and find the chickens and roosters who were hiding in one of the stables.
- Everyone has seen at least a few gallinaceous birds, since domesticated chicken and turkeys are in this category.
- As birds go, the domestic chicken is hardly built for high-performance flight.
- Three younger girls chase a chicken around in circles.
- Just as it sounds, a fertile egg has been fertilized by a male chicken and could potentially become a chick.
- The male chickens have dark yellow feet whereas the female chickens have light yellow feet.
- As per traditional Indian thinking, seeing a brood of chickens along with a hen is a bad omen.
- The disappearance of chickens in many farmyards and back gardens must have reduced the availability of food.
- She lived on the top floor while all her hens and chickens clucked happily on the ground level.
- 1.1 Meat from a chicken.
烤鸡肉。 Example sentencesExamples - We had a delicious meal of steak, roast chicken, mashed potatoes and salad.
- These people tended to avoid red meat but ate chicken and fish.
- The sauce also goes well with leftover roast, chicken, turkey or ham.
- Some braised beef or roast chicken, for example, would be a welcome addition.
- Roast beef, chicken, seafood, steak, and savory stews were among the typical fare.
- This tells us that she won't eat red meat, chicken, pork, fish or seafood.
- My husband and I don't eat red meat or chicken; my parents, who do, call us ‘vegetarians.’
- This includes all previously allowed items plus red meat, chicken, and well-cooked vegetables.
- The main types of meat are pork, chicken, and mutton.
- The decline was more pronounced among women who ate a high percentage of non-dairy animal protein, such as red meat, chicken, turkey and pork.
- The sauce is good served with roast chicken, steak or grilled fish.
- They were also asked to decrease intake of red meat, substituting chicken, fish, and skim milk as protein sources.
- The meats consisted of soft shelled crab covered in spices, tender roast beef and chicken.
- When I am given a choice of meats, I choose white meat such as chicken or fish over steak.
- Smoke rose from the center, where open fires roasted chicken and other meats.
- Concentrate on eating vegetables, fruits and whole grains, and choose chicken rather than red meat.
- Believe me, the beef, pork, chicken and other meats are very expensive.
- Corn, rice, and peas are eaten with meats such as chicken, fish, pork, and beef.
- The preferred meat is mutton, but chicken, beef, and camel also are consumed.
- The main course was a pristine roast chicken with herbs and bacon and mashed potatoes along with mixed vegetables.
2informal A game in which the first person to lose nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser. 〈非正式〉看谁胆小（一种第一个胆怯退缩的人为输家的游戏） Example sentencesExamples - It's like we're playing a game of chicken in reverse.
- Who will survive the ultimate game of slow motion chicken?
- It looked like a game of chicken as both shifted to tackle positions.
- I talked to Seth today about it and he just laughed and told me they were playing a game of chicken and truth or dare.
- The best of these is at a lumber yard, where groups of fighters need to balance on the logs in a death defying game of chicken.
- Bondholders are playing a dangerous game of chicken because they feel they have little to lose.
- As I write this, the game of chicken is in maximum overdrive.
- I think it's sort of a game of chicken until then.
- What we have here is an intriguing game of chicken.
- This is not a some kind of macho game of chicken to show we have our resolve.
- It's a game of political chicken within the Republican party.
- In the game, it becomes more like a game of chicken, with the enemy ship trying to charge and ram you almost from the first moment you come across one another.
- Buses and trucks play a game of chicken, oblivious to the concept of traffic lanes.
- It was just like the game of chicken - someone would have to back out first.
- The scheduled sessions had gone badly, both men playing a game of chicken as they moved from one contentious issue to another.
- This is prime land, housing here would fetch huge prices and so, for a quarter of a century, a sort of big business game of chicken has developed.
- It's like a game of chicken - car racing toward car, head-on - who would back down?
- If that is not enough then maybe the driver will engage you with a pleasant game of chicken.
- Since then, the two men have been engaged in a game of chicken.
- 2.1 A coward.
懦夫，胆小鬼 Example sentencesExamples - You're right - I am a chicken, scared of everything and anything.
- Candy was right, Jane was being a coward and chicken.
3informal (among homosexuals) an adolescent male.
adjectiveˈCHikənˈtʃɪkən informal predicative Cowardly. 懦夫，胆小鬼 they were too chicken to follow the murderers into the mountains 他们胆子太小，不敢进山追那些杀人凶手。 Synonyms easily frightened, lacking courage, fearful, apprehensive, afraid, frightened, scared, faint-hearted
verbˈCHikənˈtʃɪkən [no object]chicken outinformal Withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve. 〈非正式〉（因胆怯）从…退缩；在…上失败 the referee chickened out of giving a penalty 裁判因胆小没有判罚。 Example sentencesExamples - I don't want to chicken out, but finally I say ‘Man, this is hard work.’
- Every time I try to talk to her, I just chicken out.
- ‘You'd better not chicken out at the last minute again,’ she warned him.
- Obviously this will be open to horrendous abuse, so I might chicken out at the last moment.
- The person who told me this says that there's still time for someone to chicken out and cancel or postpone.
- I'm going to chicken out on this one, and keep all my punchlines to myself.
- Make sure you don't chicken out on the rollercoaster though, as it's an experience-and-a-half.
- Don't tell me you all came this far just to chicken out?
- So it will not surprise you if I chicken out of making predictions.
- The advantage is that you can spend as much time as you like modifying the configuration and activate it in just a couple of keystrokes - or not, if you chicken out.
- I'd never seen anything quite like that, and half of me is afraid of what he will do, and half of me is afraid he will chicken out at the last second.
- They're the ones who may change their minds or chicken out.
- I just had to push you into the crowd first because I knew you would chicken out and not jump.
- I thought you would chicken out, I didn't really mean for you to do it.
- ‘We'll keep her just in case you decide to chicken out on us,’ Regis said.
- The course doesn't start until May, so there's still time to chicken out, if need be.
- But every time I almost get up the nerve to go and speak to her, I chicken out.
- She said, ‘We need to raise a better generation that won't chicken out.’
- If the corporate talking heads don't chicken out, this could be fun.
- Maybe you'll intend to come clean but chicken out.
OriginOld English cīcen, cȳcen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kieken and German Küchlein, and probably also to cock. |