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say it: CHIK-uhn
chicken is a noun and adjective meaning "the flesh of a chicken used for food". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
easily frightened
colloquialism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chicken come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.