chicken

Plural: chickens

Noun

• the flesh of a chicken used for food
• a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
• a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
• a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
• A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.
• The meat from this bird eaten as food.
• The young of any bird; a chick.
• A coward.
• A young or inexperienced person.
• A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
• The game of dare.
• 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).
• A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
• A kilogram of cocaine.
• A small pewter pot used in a tavern.
• plural of chick

Adjective Satellite

• easily frightened

Adj

• Cowardly.

Verb

Verb Forms: chickened, chickening, chickens

• To lose one's nerve; to back out of a challenge.
• To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

Examples

• Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
• Don’t CHICKEN out of playing a challenging word, even if it feels risky.
• Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.

Synonyms

chickenhearted, crybaby, Gallus gallus, lily-livered, poulet, volaille, white-livered, wimp, yellow, yellow-bellied, afeared, alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, biddy, bird, boneless, brick, chicken, chicken-hearted, chickenshit, chook, coward, cowardly, craven, dastardly, fainthearted, fearful, frightened, frit, game of chicken, gutless, heartless, hen-hearted, horrified, kiasi, milky, mortified, mousy, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, panicked, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, scared, sissy, spineless, spring chicken, terrified, timid, timorous, twink, unhearty, weak-kneed, wimpish, worried

Related Words

egg, poultry, 🐔

Anagrams of chicken