单词	chicken
释义	noun | adjective | verb chickenchicken1 /ˈtʃɪkən/ ●●● S1 W2 noun Etymology ETYMOLOGYchicken1 Origin: Old English cicen young chicken 1BIRD [countable] a common farm bird that is kept for its meat and eggs:  We raise our own chickens. → see also hen, rooster2MEAT [uncountable] the meat from this bird, eaten as food:  fried chicken Boy, that chicken smells good.3NO COURAGE [countable] informal someone who is not brave at all SYN coward:  I’m such a chicken when it comes to skiing.4GAME [uncountable] a game in which someone, especially a young person, must do something dangerous to show that he or she is brave5a chicken and egg situation/problem/thing etc. a situation in which it is impossible to decide which of two things happened first, or which action is the cause of the other:  That leaves the company in a chicken and egg dilemma.6somebody’s chickens have come home to roost used to say that someone’s bad or dishonest actions in the past have caused the problems that he or she has now7Which came first, the chicken or the egg? used to say that it is difficult or impossible to decide which of two things happened first, or which action is the cause and which is the effect[Origin: Old English cicen young chicken] → see also don’t count your chickens (before they’ve hatched) at count1 (12), spring chicken noun | adjective | verb chickenchicken2 adjective [not before noun] informal not brave enough to do something:  Dave’s too chicken to ask her out. noun | adjective | verb chickenchicken3 verb Verb Table VERB TABLE chicken Simple Form Present I, you, we, they chicken he, she, it chickens Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they chickened Present perfect I, you, we, they have chickened he, she, it has chickened Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had chickened Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will chicken Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have chickened Continuous Form Present I am chickening he, she, it is chickening you, we, they are chickening Past I, he, she, it was chickening you, we, they were chickening Present perfect I, you, we, they have been chickening he, she, it has been chickening Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been chickening Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be chickening Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been chickening chicken out phrasal verb informal to decide at the last moment not to do something, because you are afraid:  Margaret chickened out of starting her own business.
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