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

  1. Chick as a noun:

    A young bird.

  2. Chick as a noun:

    A young chicken.

  3. Chick as a noun (term of endearment):

    A young child.

  4. 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"

  1. Chick as a verb (obsolete):

    To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.

    Examples:

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  1. Chick as a noun (India, Pakistan):

    A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.

  1. Chicken as a noun (countable):

    A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.

  2. Chicken as a noun (uncountable):

    The meat from this bird eaten as food.

  3. Chicken as a noun (countable, slang):

    A coward.

  4. Chicken as a noun (countable, slang):

    A young or inexperienced person.

  5. Chicken as a noun (countable, Polari):

    A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare .

  6. 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."

  7. Chicken as a noun:

    A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.

  1. Chicken as an adjective (informal):

    Cowardly.

    Examples:

    "Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken."

  1. Chicken as a verb (intransitive):

    To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

  1. Chicken as a noun (UK, _, dialectal, _, or, _, obsolete):