Chicken vs. Fowl

Chicken and Fowl Definitions
Chicken
A common domesticated fowl (Gallus domesticus) widely raised for meat and eggs and believed to be descended from the jungle fowl G. gallus.
Fowl
Any of various birds of the order Galliformes, especially the common, widely domesticated chicken (Gallus domesticus).
Chicken
Any of various similar or related birds.
Fowl
A bird, such as a duck, goose, turkey, or pheasant, that is used as food or hunted as game.
Chicken
The flesh of the chicken, used as food.
Fowl
The flesh of such birds used as food.
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Chicken
(Slang) A coward.
Fowl
A bird of any kind.
Chicken
Any of various foolhardy competitions in which the participants persist in a dangerous course of action until one loses nerve and stops.
Fowl
To hunt, trap, or shoot wildfowl.
Chicken
Vulgar Slang A young gay male, especially as sought by an older man.
Fowl
(archaic) A bird.
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Chicken
Afraid; cowardly.
Fowl
A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
Chicken
To act in a cowardly manner; lose one's nerve
Chickened out at the last moment.
Fowl
Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade Galloanserae.
Chicken
(countable) A domesticated species of junglefowl (usually, Gallus gallus; sometimes, Gallus gallus domesticus or Gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.
Fowl
To hunt fowl.
We took our guns and went fowling.
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Chicken
(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
Fowl
Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air.
Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not.
Like a flight of fowlScattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts.
Chicken
(archaic) The young of any bird; a chick.
Fowl
Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).
Chicken
A coward.
Fowl
To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.
Such persons as may lawfully hunt, fish, or fowl.
Chicken
A young or inexperienced person.
Fowl
A domesticated gallinaceous bird though to be descended from the red jungle fowl
Chicken
A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
Fowl
The flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
Chicken
The game of dare.
Fowl
Hunt fowl
Chicken
A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (that is, the loser).
Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
Fowl
Hunt fowl in the forest
Chicken
A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
Chicken
A kilogram of cocaine.
Chicken
Plural of chick
Chicken
(informal) Cowardly.
Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.
Chicken
(intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
Chicken
A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
Chicken
A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken.
Chicken
The flesh of a chicken used for food
Chicken
A domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
Chicken
A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
Chicken
A foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
Chicken
Easily frightened