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chick
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English chicke, chike, variation of chiken (“chicken", also "chick”), from Old English ?icen, ?ycen (“chicken”). Sense of "young woman" dates to at least 1860 (compare chit (“young, pert woman”)). More at chicken.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
chick (plural chicks or (obsolete) chicken)
- A young bird.
- Synonym: fledgling
- Coordinate term: birdlet
- A young chicken.
- (dated, endearing) A young child.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A young, typically attractive, woman or teenage girl.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:girl, Thesaurus:woman
- (military, slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.
- 2004, Joe Welzen, The Gutsy Stomach Walker (page 50)
- The Aldis lamp flashes at the underside of each aircraft. It shows that the gear is down. Diegal is relaxing. This is such low responsibility, easy night duty. All the “chicks” (fighter aircraft) are home to roost except one.
- 2004, Joe Welzen, The Gutsy Stomach Walker (page 50)
Derived terms
- chick flick
- chickfriend
- chick lit
- chick magnet
Translations
Verb
chick (third-person singular simple present chicks, present participle chicking, simple past and past participle chicked)
- (obsolete) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chalmers to this entry?)
Etymology 2
From Hindi ???? f (ciq) and Urdu ??? f (ciq), ultimately from Persian ??? f (ciq).
Noun
chick (plural chicks)
- (India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
- 1890, Rudyard Kipling, Letter to William Canton, 5 April, 1890, in Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.) Writings on writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 34, [1]
- Then, through a cautiously lifted chick, the old scene stands revealed […]
- 1905, A. C. Newcombe, Village, Town, and Jungle Life in India, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, Chapter VII p. 106, [2]
- It is not uncommon at meal-time to see the table servants chasing the sparrows about the room, endeavouring to drive them out while some one holds up the "chick" or bamboo net which covers the doorway.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 2, [3]
- […] at this time of day all the verandas were curtained with green bamboo chicks.
- 1999, Kevin Rushby, Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond, New York: St. Martin's Press, Chapter 10, p. 216, [4]
- Outside I could hear the bamboo chick tapping on the door like a blind man's stick on a kerbstone.
- 1890, Rudyard Kipling, Letter to William Canton, 5 April, 1890, in Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.) Writings on writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 34, [1]
Synonyms
- chick-blinds
Derived terms
- chicked
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English chike, from Old English ?icen. Cognate with English chick, and Scots schik.
Noun
chick
- chicken
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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muttonbirding
English
Etymology
mutton bird +? -ing
Noun
muttonbirding (uncountable)
- The seasonal harvesting of petrel chicks, especially shearwater species, for food, oil and feathers.
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