The difference between Chicken and Chook

When used as nouns, chicken means a domestic fowl, gallus gallus, especially when young, whereas chook means a chicken, especially a hen.


Chicken is also verb with the meaning: to avoid a situation one is afraid of.

Chicken is also adjective with the meaning: cowardly.

Chook is also interjection with the meaning: a call made to chickens.

check bellow for the other definitions of Chicken and Chook

  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):

  1. Chook as a noun (Australia, New Zealand, informal):

    A chicken, especially a hen.

  2. Chook as a noun (Australia, New Zealand, informal):

    A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.

  3. Chook as a noun (Australia, dated):

    A fool.