The difference between Chicken and Spring chicken
When used as nouns, chicken means a domestic fowl, gallus gallus, especially when young, whereas spring chicken means a chicken for eating while it is still young.
Chicken is also verb with the meaning: to avoid a situation one is afraid of.
Chicken is also adjective with the meaning: cowardly.
check bellow for the other definitions of Chicken and Spring chicken
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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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Spring chicken as a noun:
A chicken for eating while it is still young.