chicken little

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   a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling

   Broaderfictional character

Questions about chicken little

What does chicken little mean?

chicken little means "a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling".

Is chicken little a common word?

chicken little is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.