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▪ I. chick, n.1|tʃɪk|
Forms: 4–5 chike, chyke, 5–6 chyk, 6 chik, (cheke), 6–7 chicke, 6– chick.
[A shortened form of chicken n.1 Probably in its origin merely a phonetic development, the final n being (in some dialects) lost, as in the inflexion of nouns and verbs, and the resulting final e then disappearing in the ordinary way. A few examples of the intermediate chicke have come down; cf. also lent from lenten; often, ofte, oft; ME. selden, selde, seld, etc. Chick is now treated generally as a kind of diminutive of chicken; but in s.w. dialect, chick is singular, chicken plural; and it appears to be certain that there chick, chicken, are the worn down forms of ME. chike(n, chikene, OE. cicen, cicenu, the result being to bring them apparently into the class of ox, oxen, and dial. house, housen, vurze, vurzen.]
1. A chicken; esp. a young chicken; sometimes, the young of any bird.
c1400Rom. Rose 541 Hir flesh tendre as is a chike. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. vi. xix. in Ashm. (1652) 165 The substance of an Egg by nature ys wrought Into a Chyk. 1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. 203 Two greate chykens, the one was a hen chik & the other a cock chyk. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 199 As the old cocke crowes so doeth the chick. 1707Swift Manner of Living Wks. 1755 IV. i. 288 On rainy days alone I dine Upon a chick and pint of wine. 1886Illustr. Lond. News 6 Feb. 142/2 The..courage which the hen exhibits when her chick is threatened with the foe.
2. esp. The young bird still in the egg or only just hatched.
1601Holland Pliny x. liii. (R.) By the twentie daie ye shall heare the chicke to peepe within the verie shell. 1672Grew Anat. Plants. i. vi. §13 What the Hen by Incubation or Hovering, is to the Egg or Chick. 1711Addison Spect. No. 120 ⁋14 With how much Nicety and Attention does she [the Hen] help the Chick to break its Prison? 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. The Chick within the egg sets itself free by tapping with its bill..against the shell.
3. transf.
a. Applied to human offspring; = chicken n.1 2; esp. in alliteration with child. Sometimes as a term of endearment (see quot. 1610).
c1320Seuyn Sag. (W.) 2159 He is the fendes chike. c1380Sir Ferumb. 4332 He semeþ ful wel þe deuels chyke, y-sprong of þe pyt of helle. 1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 318 My Ariel; chicke That is thy charge. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Bremant, Hee hath nor child nor chicke to care for. 1630Dekker 2nd Pt. Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 104, I haue no wife, I haue no child, haue no chick. 1648Herrick Hesper., For Duke of Yorke 8 And so dresse him up with love, As to be the chick of Jove. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 280 He..had no chick or child to bless his house.
b. A girl; a young woman. slang (orig. U.S.).
1927S. Lewis Elmer Gantry vii. 114 He didn't want to marry this brainless little fluffy chick. 1957C. MacInnes City of Spades i. v. 31 There stood..Muriel's sister. But what a difference from the little chick! 1959News Chron. 12 Aug. 4/3 Beatniks and their ‘chicks’—palefaced girls wearing pony-tail hair-dos and toreador pants. 1971It. 12–16 June 16/2 Jackie, always a ‘with-it chick’.
4. Digby chick: a small kind of dried herring.
1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 72 Samples of Yarmouth Golden Digby Chicks in tins hermetically sealed. 1887Daily News 2 May 2/8 Digby chicks, 6d. per bundle.
5. Comb., as † chick-master, chicken-keeper; chickpecked (nonce-wd. after hen-pecked).
1600Holland Livy ix. xiv. 322 The Chick-master [pullarius]..sendeth mee word that the birds feed right. 1880J. B. Harwood Young Ld. Penrith I. iv. 49 Families in which..the old folks..sorely chickpecked, yield precedence to the young.
▸ chick flick n. (also chick's flick) a film predominantly based around female characters; spec. (a) a film designed to appeal to male sexual fantasy in its exploitative portrayal of female characters; (b) (sometimes depreciative) a film perceived, or marketed, as appealing particularly to women, typically featuring strong female characters and themes of romance, personal relationships, and female solidarity; cf. buddy movie n. at buddy n. Additions 3a.
1988Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) 23 Oct. (TV Record section) 69/1 Films like Russ Meyers' ‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls’ (1970) and ‘Twilight People’ (1972)... Corman's ‘Black Mama, White Mama’ (1972), another *chick-flick set in a slammer in the Phillipines [sic]. 1991Sassy Aug. 92/1 Now even the most unlikely movies go to the violent place, like the chick film Thelma and Louise. 1993Washington Times (Nexis) 1 Dec. c14 What with ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ updating the concept of the chick's flick in the national consciousness, the American Film Institute Theater has weighed in with a retrospective survey of the ‘women's movie’, as Hollywood understood and refined the genre during the 1930s and 1940s. 1996ikon Jan.–Feb. 100/1 You want the definition of a Chick Flick—you know the kind of thing, that insulting celluloid pap the distributors put out to entertain soccer widows? 2000A. H. Jones in P. Lefcourt & L. J. Shapiro First Time I got paid for It 98 The material turned out to be right up my alley. Slumber Party Massacre was a chick flick in disguise.
▸ chick lit n. (occas. depreciative) literature by, for, or about women; esp. a type of fiction, typically focusing on the social lives and relationships of young professional women, and often aimed at readers with similar experiences.
1993Newsday 13 Apr. 96 By the way, the very proper sounding ‘Female Literary Tradition’ is known there [i.e. at Princeton University] as ‘*Chick Lit’. 1996Boston Globe (Nexis) 22 May 67 I'm really very sad to see Wolcott decrying postfem chick lit as mere ‘popularity-contest coquetry’... He doesn't even like Cynthia Heimel or Julie Burchill, from what I can tell. 2000I. Edward-Jones My Canapé Hell (2001) iv. 82 It was one of those chick-lit book launches about fat thighs, low self-esteem and vomiting.
▪ II. ‖ chick, cheek, n.2 Anglo-Ind.
Also check.
[Hindī chik.]
‘A kind of screen-blind made of finely-split bamboo, laced with twine, and often painted on the outer side; hung or framed in doorways or windows’ (Yule).
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 92 (Y.) Their Windows are usually folding doors, screened with Cheeks or latises. 1825Heber Journ. India (1844) I. 192 (Y.) The check of the tent. 1835Emma Roberts Scenes Hindostan 218 A curtain..of a sort of gauze-work, formed of bamboo split very fine, coloured green, and called chick. a1847Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor V. xxix. 46 Peeping through the check by which my dressing-room was screened from the verandah.
▪ III. chick, n.3 Anglo-Ind. colloq.|tʃɪk|
An abbreviation of chickeen, chequeen, the Venetian gold coin, long current on the shores of India, and there valued at four rupees.
1866Trevelyan Dawk Bungalow (Y.) Whenever master spends a chick, I keep back two rupees, Sir. 1875The Dilemma x. (Y.) ‘Can't do much harm by losing twenty chicks’, observed the Colonel in Anglo-Indian argot. 1886Yule Anglo-Ind. Gloss., ‘I'll bet you a chick’.
▪ IV. chick, n.4
[Cf. chick v.1 2.]
1. Sc. A tick.
1791Burns Let. to Ainslie (Globe) No. 236 Here must I sit..slowly counting every chick of the clock.
2. The call-note (of a bird). Also chick-chick. (Cf. chack n.3, chack-chack.)
1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn v, The chick-chick of the stonechat. 1894R. B. Sharpe Handbk. Birds Gt. Brit. I. 105 They never uttered more than a whispered call-note, ‘chick’. 1922Z. Grey To Last Man iv. 84 A hoarse-voiced old turkey gobbler was booming his chug-a-lug.., and the softer chick of hen turkeys answered him.
▪ V. † chick, v.1 Obs.
[Imitative of sound.]
1. Of chickens: To chirp, cheep.
c1440Promp. Parv. 74 Chykkyn', as hennys byrdys [1499 chycke, as henne byrdes], pipio, pululo. Ibid. Chykkynge, or wyppynge of yonge byrdys [K.H. chickyng or ȝippyng of bryddys], pupulatus, pupulacio.
2. Sc. To tick as a clock or watch. (Jamieson).
▪ VI. † chick, v.2 Obs. exc. dial.
Also 5 chykkyn, 7 check.
[Onomatopœic. Closely related to prec., but denoting the sudden action of breaking which the sound there expressed often accompanies: cf. chip in same sense.]
1. intr. To sprout, shoot, germinate; to ‘chip’. Hence ˈchicking vbl. n.
c1440Promp. Parv. 74 Chykkyn, as corne, or spyryn, or sp[r]owtyn', pulilo. Ibid. Chickyng, or spyryng of corne,..germinacio, pululatus, pululacio. 1787W. Marshall Norfolk Gloss. (E.D.S.) Chicked, sprouted, begun to vegetate, as seed in the ground. 1830Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Chick, to begin to germinate; as seeds in the earth, leaves from their buds, or barley on the couch in the malthouse.
2. To crack or burst as a seed does in sprouting; to split; to chap. Also trans.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (1856) 15 Soone as they are peel'd we carry them into some house because the sunne shoulde not checke and rive them [willows]. Ibid. 104 That paste that is made of barley meale, cracketh and checketh. 1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 246 Put a little [Onion seed] into a Porrenger of water, and let it infuse upon the hot embers, and if it be good it will begin to Check and Speer. 1830Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Chick, to crack, chap, chop, as the skin in frosty weather. |