The difference between Chick and Chicken
When used as nouns, chick means a young bird, whereas chicken means a domestic fowl, gallus gallus, especially when young.
When used as verbs, chick means to sprout, as seed does in the ground, whereas chicken means to avoid a situation one is afraid of.
Chicken is also adjective with the meaning: cowardly.
check bellow for the other definitions of Chick and Chicken
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Chick as a noun:
A young bird.
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Chick as a noun:
A young chicken.
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Chick as a noun (term of endearment):
A young child.
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Chick as a noun (slang, often, pejorative):
A young, especially attractive, woman or teenage girl.
Examples:
"Three cool chicks / Are walking down the street / Swinging their hips'' — song "Three Cool Cats" by w Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller"
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Chick as a verb (obsolete):
To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
Examples:
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Chick as a noun (India, Pakistan):
A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
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Chicken as a noun (countable):
A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.
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Chicken as a noun (uncountable):
The meat from this bird eaten as food.
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Chicken as a noun (countable, slang):
A coward.
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Chicken as a noun (countable, slang):
A young or inexperienced person.
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Chicken as a noun (countable, Polari):
A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare .
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Chicken as a noun:
The game of dare. 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.)
Examples:
"Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose."
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Chicken as a noun:
A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
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Chicken as an adjective (informal):
Cowardly.
Examples:
"Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken."
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Chicken as a verb (intransitive):
To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
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Chicken as a noun (UK, _, dialectal, _, or, _, obsolete):