The difference between Chicken and Hen
When used as nouns, chicken means a domestic fowl, gallus gallus, especially when young, whereas hen means a female chicken (gallus gallus), particularly a sexually mature one kept for its eggs.
When used as verbs, chicken means to avoid a situation one is afraid of, whereas hen means to throw.
Chicken is also adjective with the meaning: cowardly.
Hen is also adverb with the meaning: hence.
check bellow for the other definitions of Chicken and Hen
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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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Hen as a noun:
A female chicken (Gallus gallus), particularly a sexually mature one kept for its eggs.
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Hen as a noun:
A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl.
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Hen as a noun (uncommon):
A female fish or crustacean.
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Hen as a noun (figuratively, depreciatory):
A woman, particularly A bride-to-be, particularly in the context of her "hen night" festivities.
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Hen as a noun (UK, informal):
A hen night.
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Hen as a noun (Scotland, informal):
An affectionate term of address used to women or girls.
Examples:
"Don't cry, hen. Everything will be all right."
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Hen as a noun (figuratively, pejorative, uncommon):
A henlike person of either sex.
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Hen as a noun:
The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), a bivalve shellfish.
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Hen as an adverb (dialectal):
Hence.
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Hen as a verb (dialectal):
To throw.