different between livered vs chicken

English

Etymology

liver +? -ed

Adjective

livered (not comparable)

1. (in combination) Having (or having the characteristics associated with) a specified form of liver

Anagrams

• deliver, delivre, relived, reviled

English

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Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ch?k'?n, IPA^(key): /?t???k?n/
• Rhymes: -?k?n, -?k?n
• Hyphenation: chick?en

Etymology 1

From Middle English chiken (also as chike > English chick), from Old English ?icen, ?ycen (“chicken”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *kiuk?n (“chicken”), or alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *kukk?n, equivalent to cock +? -en. Compare North Frisian schückling (“chicken”), Saterland Frisian Sjuuken (“chicken”), Dutch kuiken (“chick, chicken”), German Low German Küken (“chick”), whence German Küken (“chick”), (elevated, obsolete) German Küchlein (“chick”) and Old Norse kjúklingr (“chicken”).

Noun

chicken (countable and uncountable, plural chickens)

1. (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.
   • 1997, Beverley Randell, Clive Harper, Chickens, Nelson Thornes (?ISBN), page 8:

     Some chickens lay eggs almost every day. […] Chickens are kept for their meat, too.

2. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
   • 1995, Jean Paré, Chicken, Etc., Company's Coming Publishing Limited (?ISBN), page 7:

     Before cooking chicken, or other poultry, rinse with cold water and pat dry with a paper towel.

3. (archaic) The young of any bird; a chick.
4. (countable, slang) A coward.
   • 2008, Lanakila Michael Achong, Haole Boy: The Adoption of Diversity, iUniverse (?ISBN), page 44:

     Usually, I had no problem approaching girls, but this one was different. I went home and berated myself for being such a chicken.

   • (More commonly used as an adjective with this sense; see below.)
5. (countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
   • 1886, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Lauriston Garden Mystery”, in A Study in Scarlet (Beeton's Christmas Annual; 28th season), London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., November 1887, OCLC 15800088; republished as A Study in Scarlet. A Detective Story, new edition, London: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., 1892, OCLC 23246292, page 43:

     "This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken."

6. (countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
7. The game of dare.
   1. 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).

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

Synonyms

• (bird): biddy, chook (Australia, NZ)
• (coward): see Thesaurus:coward
• (young inexperienced person): spring chicken
• (young, attractive, slim man): twink

Hyponyms

• (bird): cock, cockerel, rooster (male), hen (female), chick (young), broiler (suitable as food)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? German: Chicken
• ? Irish: sicín
• ? Japanese: ??? (chikin)
• ? Korean: ?? (chikin)

Translations

See also

• egg
• poultry
• ????

Adjective

chicken (comparative more chicken, superlative most chicken)

1. (informal) Cowardly.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cowardly, Thesaurus:afraid

Derived terms

• chicken out

Etymology 2

Shortening of chicken out.

Verb

chicken (third-person singular simple present chickens, present participle chickening, simple past and past participle chickened)

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

Etymology 3

From chick +? -en (plural ending).

Noun

chicken

1. (Britain dialectal or obsolete) plural of chick

Further reading

• chicken on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• chicken (food) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• chicken (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• chicken (gay slang) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• chicken (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• check in, check-in, checkin', in check

Scots

Etymology

From English chicken.

Noun

chicken (plural chickens)

1. chicken