chicken
noun/ˈtʃɪkɪn/
Слово англійською: chicken
Переклад chicken українською: курча
Детальний опис
- [countable] a large bird that is often kept for its eggs or meat
- They keep chickens in the back yard.
- free-range chickens
- Chickens were pecking at the ground.
- the sound of chickens clucking
- [uncountable] meat from a chicken
- fried chicken
- roast/grilled chicken
- succulent pieces of chicken
- chicken and chips
- chicken breasts/wings
- chicken livers/thighs
- chicken nuggets
- a chicken sandwich
- chicken soup
- chicken stock
- [countable] a person who is not brave or is afraid to do something
- He called me a chicken because I wouldn't swim in the river.
Word OriginOld English cīcen, cȳcen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kieken and German Küchlein, and probably also to cock.
Idioms
a chicken-and-egg situation, problem, etc.
- a situation in which it is difficult to tell which one of two things was the cause of the other
something comes home to roost
(also the chickens come home to roost)
- used to say that if somebody says or does something bad or wrong, it will affect them badly in the future
don’t count your chickens (before they are hatched)
- (saying) you should not be too confident that something will be successful, because something may still go wrong
play chicken
- to play a game in which people do something dangerous for as long as they can to show how brave they are. The person who stops first has lost the game.
- The children had been playing chicken by running across the railway line.
run around like a headless chicken
- to be very busy and active trying to do something, but not very organized, with the result that you do not succeed