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chicken 音标拼音: [tʃ'ɪkən] n. 小鸡,鸡肉;胆小鬼 小鸡,鸡肉;胆小鬼 chicken adj 1: easily frightened [ synonym: { chicken}, { chickenhearted}, { lily- livered}, { white- livered}, { yellow}, { yellow- bellied}] n 1: the flesh of a chicken used for food [ synonym: { chicken}, { poulet}, { volaille}] 2: a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl [ synonym: { chicken}, { Gallus gallus}] 3: a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy- washy [ synonym: { wimp}, { chicken}, { crybaby}] 4: a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stopsChicken \ Chick" en\, n. [ AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock; akin to LG. kiken, k[" u] ken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G. k[" u] chkein. See { Cock} the animal.] 1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as { spring chicken}. " Stella is no chicken." -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] { Chicken cholera}, a contagious disease of fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera. [ 1913 Webster] 281 Moby Thesaurus words for " chicken": Ancona, Andalusian, Australorp, Bantam, Brahma, Campine, Cochin, Cornish, Cornish hen, Hamburg, Hershey bar, Leghorn, Lord Fauntleroy, Milquetoast, New Hampshire red, Orpington, Percy, Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island red, Rock Cornish, Sumatra, Sussex, afraid, anemic, asthenic, auntie, aviation badge, baby, back out, badge, banty, bar, barn- door fowl, barnyard fowl, bi- guy, biddy, big baby, bisexual, black Minorca, black Spanish, black Sumatra, bloodless, blue Orpington, boggle, broiler, brooder, broody hen, buff Orpington, bull dyke, butch, caille, canard, caneton, capon, catamite, chanticleer, chapon, chevron, chick, chickabiddy, chicken liver, chicken out, chickenhearted, chicky, cock, cockerel, coward, cowardly, cowed, craven, cream puff, crybaby, dastard, daunted, debilitated, desert under fire, dindon, dismayed, domestic fowl, doormat, drake, drooping, droopy, duck, duckling, dull, dull tool, dunghill fowl, dyke, eagle, effeminate, effete, epaulet, etiolated, fag, faggot, faint, fainthearted, faintish, fairy, faisan, falter, fearful, feeble, femme, flabby, flaccid, flit, floppy, fowl, fraid- cat, fraidy- cat, fricatrice, fruit, fryer, funk, funk out, funker, funking, funky, game fowl, gander, get cold feet, gobbler, gone, goody- goody, goose, gosling, grouse, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, gunsel, gutless, gutless wonder, hash mark, hen, hen turkey, henhearted, homo, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, imbecile, impotent, insignia of branch, intimidated, invert, invertebrate, jellyfish, languid, languorous, lesbian, lightweight, lily, lily liver, lily- livered, limber, limp, listless, lose courage, lustless, marrowless, meek soul, milk- livered, milksop, milksoppish, milksoppy, mollycoddle, mouse, mousy, muliebrous, namby- pamby, nance, nancy, nebbish, nerveless, nonentity, oak leaf, oie, old woman, old- womanish, organization insignia, overseas bar, overtimid, overtimorous, panic- prone, panicky, pansy, pantywaist, parachute badge, partlet, partridge, patch, pathic, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonhearted, pigeonneau, pip, pithless, poltroon, poltroonish, pooped, poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, powerless, prissy, pullet, punk, pushover, pusillanimous, quail, queen, queer, quitter, rabbity, roaster, rooster, rubbery, sad sack, sapless, sapphist, scaredy- cat, scuttle, service stripe, setting hen, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, sinewless, sissified, sissy, sissyish, skedaddle, slack, soft, softling, softy, sop, speckled Sussex, spineless, spread eagle, spring chicken, spunkless, squab, star, stewing chicken, strengthless, stripe, submarine badge, timid, timorous, tom, tom turkey, tribade, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey- cock, unhardened, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, volaille, weak, weak sister, weak- kneed, weakhearted, weakling, weakly, white Orpington, white Plymouth Rock, white Wyandotte, white feather, white liver, white- livered, wild duck, womanish, yellow |
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