The difference between Chicken and Coward
When used as nouns, chicken means a domestic fowl, gallus gallus, especially when young, whereas coward means a person who lacks courage.
When used as verbs, chicken means to avoid a situation one is afraid of, whereas coward means to intimidate.
When used as adjectives, chicken means cowardly, whereas coward means cowardly.
check bellow for the other definitions of Chicken and Coward
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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):
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Coward as a noun:
A person who lacks courage.
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Coward as an adjective:
Cowardly.
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Coward as an adjective (heraldry, of a [[lion]]):
Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
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Coward as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To intimidate.