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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

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