| 单词 | spring chicken |
| 释义 | spring chicken (once / 34459 pages) n WORD FAMILY spring chicken: spring chickens USAGE EXAMPLESI am no longer a spring chicken and it is no longer spring anyway. New York Times(Nov 13, 2016) Peres wanted to be president, a mostly ceremonial role, when he was still a spring chicken at 77. Slate(Sep 28, 2016) Her relatives in Belize remember her from those days as “little Simone,” a tiny girl in perpetual motion, a “spring chicken” and “a firecracker.” New York Times(Aug 11, 2016) 1n a young chicken having tender meat Hyper Gallus gallus, chicken a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl 2n a young person (especially a young man or boy) Syn|Hypo|Hyper young person, younker, youth blade a dashing young man hobbledehoyan awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy pup, puppyan inexperienced young person pupil, school-age child, schoolchilda young person attending school (up through senior high school) slipa young and slender person boardera pupil who lives at school during term time day boardera schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home latchkey childa school-age child who is home without adult supervision for part of the day (especially after school until a parent returns home from work) schoolboya boy attending school juvenile, juvenile person a young person, not fully developed |
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