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Chicken

noun

The flesh of a chicken used for food. Synonyms: poulet, volaille.

A domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl. Synonym: Gallus gallus.

A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy. Synonyms: crybaby, wimp.

A foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops.

adjective

Easily frightened. Synonyms: chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied.

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"Chicken" Quotes from Famous Books

... some more your work, oncle? You ain' got no chicken wing for arm if you lif' this.—Ah, be dam! I see what you lif' him with. All same stove-lid." Talking and swearing to himself cheerfully, Bonny applied the end of a broken whiffletree to the blunt lip of the old hearthstone ...

— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote

... destruction of an industry and other towns made by the building of other industries. At a whim of his a thousand men began building a city on an Indiana sand hill, and at a wave of his hand another thousand men of an Indiana town sold their homes, with the chicken houses in the back-yards and vines trained by the kitchen doors, and rushed to buy sections of the hill plotted off for them. He did not stop to discuss with his followers the meaning of the things he did. ...

— Windy McPherson's Son • Sherwood Anderson

... able to find no definite ground for the selection of it. The Doctor said, for example, that "once when on a boat journey, and camped in the forest for the noon-day meal, the crew of four had no meat. They needed it. I had a chicken but ate only a portion, and gave the rest to the crew. Three men ate it with their manioc meal, the fourth would not touch it. It was his Orunda." "On another journey," said the Doctor, "instead of all my crew leaving me ...

— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

... cooking hand. I can cook, boy, in a way to make your mother's Sunday dinner, with company expected look like Mrs. Newly-wed's first attempt at 'riz' biscuits. And I don't mean any disrespect to your mother when I say it. I'm going to have noodle-soup, and fried chicken, and hot biscuits, and creamed beans from our own garden, and strawberry shortcake ...

— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine

... afternoon teas of Cleopatra but so many quick lunches served in the rush hour of a downtown restaurant! Not only were the trout-baked-in cream (Marie's specialty) all that the Sculptor had claimed for them, but the fried chicken, souffles—everything, in fact, that the dear woman served—would have gained a Blue Ribbon had she filled the plate of any committeeman making ...

— The Man In The High-Water Boots - 1909 • F. Hopkinson Smith

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