Definition of Chickin
Chick"en (?), n. [AS. cicen,
cyceun, dim. of coc cock; akin to LG. kiken,
küken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G.
küchkein. See Cock the animal.]
1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young
barnyard fowl.
2. A young person; a child; esp. a young
woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken."
Swift.
Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of
fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence
of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true
cholera.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus.
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- (countable, slang) A coward.
- (countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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