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chicken English

Meaning chicken meaning

What does chicken mean?
Definitions in simple English

chicken Noun

— A chicken is a bird that farmers raise for meat and eggs. My father went out back, caught a chicken, cut off its head, and cleaned it for dinner. — Chicken is the meat of a chicken. They make a very tasty fried chicken dish here that comes with vegetables and potatoes.

chicken Adjective

— Someone who is afraid to do something is chicken. You won't jump your bike because you're chicken.

chicken

— noun the flesh of a chicken used for food — noun a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl — noun a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops — adjective easily frightened — noun (= wimp) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

Synonyms chicken synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as chicken?

chicken English » English

fowl hen coward chick bird rooster wimp yellow poultry scaredy-cat fearful cock yellow-bellied white-livered craven cowardly chook chickenhearted wuss volaille timid spring chicken spineless spider recreant pullet poulet pig owl lily-livered gizzard faint-hearted dove crybaby cockerel broiler Gallus gallus young hen yellow-belly wild goose sheep rooster 雌鶏 hen red junglefowl quaker pussy poltroon pansy moorhen milquetoast hen's

Chicken English » English

Rooster Cock

Topics chicken topics

What do people use chicken to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to trouble

Cowardice
Work and occupation Animal husbandry Poultry raising

Chicken
Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Bird
Daily life Food Types of food

Food from animals
Work and occupation Animal husbandry

Domesticated animal
Work and occupation Animal husbandry

Poultry raising
Daily life Food Types of food

Prepared food
Work and occupation

Animal husbandry

Conjugation chicken conjugation

How do you conjugate chicken?

chicken · verb

Examples chicken examples

How do I use chicken in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We pigged out on pizza and chicken at lunchtime.
That chicken looks good.
Chicken, tuna and soybeans are good sources of protein.
I'll never eat chicken anymore.
One emu egg is about the equivalent of nine chicken eggs.
Tom owns a chicken farm.
Chicken, please.
Well then, I'll have chicken.
The chicken hasn't laid eggs lately.
This chicken is fried well.
Ken's uncle has a big chicken farm.
One hundred dollars is just chicken feed.
As for me, I like chicken better than pork.
Just my old standby: lemon chicken.
A turkey is a little bigger than a chicken.
I'd like three pounds of chicken.
She bought a chicken.
She bought chicken.
He's no spring chicken.
Thanks, Mike. I don't like chicken.
It is duck soup for a carpenter to construct a chicken coop for his son.
She cooks chicken the way I like.
If one is to save up the chicken feed every day, it will amount to a very substantial sum in a year.

Movie subtitles

Still chicken scratches.
Valencia's photos. chocolate cake. fried chicken.
No, I just want to make sure you're not gonna chicken out.
I couldn't find mutton, so chicken wings will have to do.
Chicken stock, egg yolks, and lemon juice.
Chicken or no chicken, the Little Fellow looks appetizing to Big Jim.
Let's not waste this chicken with golden eggs. It's already decided.
I don't know why a no chicken.
You try to cross over there a chicken, and you'll find out viaduct.
I catch on to why a horse, why a chicken, why a this, why a that.
Remember that's only chicken feed.
Chicken feed.
Have you got any milk-fed chicken?
There must be some chicken too.
It goes very well with a fricassee of chicken.
You see this chicken?
It's in the inside pocket of your coat and it isn't chicken anymore.
Chicken-hearted. How do you expect to win your stripes?
What chicken-livered squid done this?
That makes 10. Chicken feed.
But for the president of the bank to arrive in a limousine. to take the banker's special, and then to run all over the platform like a silly chicken.
I didn't run like a silly chicken.
See? Everyone is running around like a head with his chicken cut off.
It must be killing him. Now his whole crew is like a chicken with one of its wings cut off.
Chicken stock, egg yolks and lemon juice.
Why a no chicken?
You try to cross over there a chicken, and you'll find out viaduct. I no go someplace.
I'm through with that chicken feed.
And the best way to break here in is with finesse..'specially since you've got yourself a dame who's certainly no spring chicken.
And since you can't use a famous signature. you'll only get chicken feed.
Hey, now listen, you mugs, no use chicken-scratching around.
I've died, gone to heaven, or maybe I'm just going to have roast chicken Southern style.
This is a rejection party, and Jerry has rejected the chicken.

News and current affairs

But even a partial shift in meat-consumption habits - with consumers choosing options like chicken and seafood, instead of beef - could have a far-reaching impact.
Consider the disagreement over the differing treatment of chicken.
In the US, chicken meat is washed in chlorinated water; in Europe, chickens are stuffed with antibiotics while alive.
As grain was fed to chicken, sheep, and cows, meat, milk, cheese, and butter became contaminated.
The cat coronavirus can cause lethal abdominal disease in cats, while some strains of the chicken coronavirus cause kidney disease rather than just bronchitis.
Indeed, it increasingly resembles a chicken farm after a fox has broken in.
People who naively believed that cows ate grass discovered that beef cattle in feed lots may be fed anything from corn to fish meal, chicken litter (complete with chicken droppings), and slaughterhouse waste.
Fifty years ago, American chicken farmers found that by keeping their birds in sheds they could produce chickens for the table more cheaply and with less work than by traditional farmyard methods.
The National Chicken Council, the trade association for the US chicken industry, recommends a stocking density of 85 square inches per bird - less than a standard sheet of typing paper.
No chicken can move without having to push through other birds.
So we get less food back than we put into the birds - and less protein, too - while disposing of the concentrated chicken manure causes serious pollution to rivers and ground water.
Then we might finally see that chicken from the factory farm really isn't so cheap after all.
In such chicken-and-egg situations, in which the market alone fails to overcome externalities and essential investments go lacking, the government can play a vital facilitating role.
As long as negotiations are reduced to national governments playing games of chicken, the only result will be chaos - and not just in the markets.
Fortunately, China's jailing of Liu Xiaobo will not, as we Chinese say, succeed in its effort to frighten the monkey by killing a chicken.
Many of these fish are consumed indirectly - ground up and fed to factory-farmed chicken or fish.
If they are not willing to risk global financial stability in an unpredictable game of chicken with Putin, perhaps it would be wise to re-think the composition of the sanctions that they impose.
If an unyielding South becomes engaged in another military game of chicken with the often-audacious and always-erratic North, the results could be catastrophic.
Shortages of medicines and basic foodstuffs such as milk, sugar, eggs, beef, and chicken abound as a consequence of price controls and mounting inflation.
In the space of just three weeks, she visited 96 villages to promote chicken-raising.

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