Chicken vs. Turkey

Chickennoun

(countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.

Chickennoun

(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.

Chickennoun

A coward.

Chickennoun

A young or inexperienced person.

Chickennoun

A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.

Chickennoun

The game of dare.

Chickennoun

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.)

Chickennoun

A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.

Chickenadjective

(informal) Cowardly.

Chickenverb

(intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

Chickennoun

A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

Chickennoun

A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken.

Chickennoun

the flesh of a chicken used for food

Chickennoun

a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

Chickennoun

a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

Chickennoun

a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

Chickenadjective

easily frightened

Chickennoun

a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one

Chickennoun

meat from a chicken

Chickennoun

a game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser

Chickennoun

a coward.

Chickenadjective

cowardly

Chickenverb

withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve

Chicken

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), a subspecies of the red junglefowl, is a type of domesticated fowl, originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult male bird, and younger male may be called a cockerel.

Turkeynoun

Either of two species of bird in the genus Meleagris with fan-shaped tails and wattled necks.

Turkeynoun

(uncountable) The meat or flesh of this bird eaten as food

Turkeynoun

(colloquial) A failure.

Turkeynoun

A foolish or inept person.

Turkeynoun

(bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.

Turkeynoun

(obsolete) The guinea fowl (Numida meleagris).

Turkeynoun

A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.

Turkeynoun

A large travel bag; a suitcase; a pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle.

Turkey

A country in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.

Turkeynoun

Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.

Turkeynoun

large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food

Turkeynoun

a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923

Turkeynoun

a person who does something thoughtless or annoying;

Turkeynoun

flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted

Turkeynoun

an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual;

Turkeynoun

wild turkey of Central America and northern South America

Turkeynoun

a country comprising the whole of the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia, with a small portion in south-eastern Europe to the west of Istanbul; population 78,700,000 (estimated 2015); official language, Turkish; capital, Ankara.

Turkey

Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye [ˈtyɾcije]), officially the Republic of Turkey, is a country bridging Europe and Asia. It shares borders with Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest; the Black Sea to the north; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea to the west.