1
- a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one鸡（尤指小鸡）。
1.1
- mass noun meat from such a bird鸡肉：
roast chicken.
烤鸡肉。
2
- mass noun informal 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）。
2.1
- count noun a coward懦夫, 胆小鬼。
predic.
- informal cowardly〈非正式〉胆小的, 怯懦的：
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。
no obj.(chicken out)
- informal 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。
短语
don't count your chickens before they're hatched
- 见COUNT1.
running（或rushing）about like a headless chicken
- informal acting in a panic-stricken manner and not thinking clearly about what should be done〈非正式〉慌如无头小鸡, 惊惶失措。
词源
Old English cīcen, cȳcen， of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kieken and German Küchlein, and probably also to COCK1.