chickennoun
uk/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn/us/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn/chicken noun (BIRD)
A2 [ C or U ] a type of bird kept on a farm for its eggs or its meat, or the meat of this bird that is cooked and eaten:
A male chicken is called a cock and a female chicken is called a hen.
We're having roast/fried chicken for dinner.
More examples
- Defrost the chicken thoroughly before cooking.
- "The dinner was excellent except that they served red wine with the chicken." "Dear me! That will never do!"
- Fry four chicken joints in a pan with some mushrooms and garlic.
- I'll have a steak - no, make that chicken.
- Marinate the chicken in white wine for a couple of hours before frying.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hens
- bantam
- broiler
- chick
- chook
- cock
- cockerel
- fryer
- rooster
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Kinds of meat
chicken noun (PERSON)
[ C ] informal a person who is not brave:
Jump, you chicken!
Synonym
coward
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Heroes and cowards
- a big/great girl's blouse idiom
- adventurer
- baby
- candy-ass
- chickenshit
- daredevil
- fainthearted
- fallen idol
- folk hero
- girl
- heroine
- idol
- knight errant
- marshmallow
- pantheon
- sissy
- sook
- superhero
- wimp
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Idiom(s)
a chicken and egg situation
play chicken
chickenadjective [ after verb ]
uk/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn/us/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn/child's wordnot brave:
Why won't you jump? Are you chicken?
Compare
cowardly
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Cowardly
- bottle
- bottle out
- chicken out
- chickenshit
- coward
- craven
- fainthearted
- gutless
- lily-livered
- pusillanimous
- spineless
- timid
- timorous
- weak-kneed
- wimp
- wimp out
- yellow