Definition of Chicken

Noun: chicken  chi-kin

  1. The flesh of a chicken used for food
    - poulet, volaille
     
  2. A domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
    - Gallus gallus, chook [Austral, NZ]
     
  3. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
    - wimp, crybaby, candy-ass [N. Amer]
     
  4. A foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
Adjective: chicken  chi-kin
  1. Easily frightened
    "Come back here, you couple of chicken-livered cowards";
    - chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied, chicken-livered
Verb: chicken  chi-kin
  1. Be too scared to do something
    - chicken out

See also:
chickees
chickened

Anagrams containing the word chicken

ceckihn nchicke enchick kenchic ckenchi ickench hickenc