Chicky vs. Chicken

(childish) Chicken.

(childish) Chick (young bird).

A chicken; - used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls.

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

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

A coward.

A young or inexperienced person.

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

The game of dare.

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.)

Example: ‘Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.’;

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

(informal) Cowardly.

Example: ‘Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.’;

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

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

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

the flesh of a chicken used for food

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

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

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

easily frightened

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

Example: ‘rationing was still in force and most people kept chickens’;

meat from a chicken

Example: ‘roast chicken’;

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

Example: ‘he was killed by a car after he lay in the road playing chicken’;

a coward.

cowardly

Example: ‘I was too chicken to go to court’;

withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve

Example: ‘the referee chickened out of giving a penalty’;

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.