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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A young chicken.
  2. n. The young of any bird.
  3. n. A child.
  4. n. Slang A girl or young woman.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A chicken; particularly, the young of the domestic hen, and of some other birds, as partridges. At exhibitions of poultry, a specimen less than one year old, whether cockerel or pullet, is termed a chick. When over one year old, the chick becomes a fowl. See chicken.
  2. To peep; cheep; make the characteristic cry of a young chick.
  3. To sprout, as seed in the ground; vegetate.
  4. To crack.
  5. n. A crack; a flaw.
  6. n. In India, a screen or curtain made of thin slips of bamboo with very narrow openings between them, allowing the admission of air and light, while excluding the view from the outside: it is hung in doorways and windows, both in houses and tents, and is the original of a kind of blind or shade now common in Europe and America.
  7. n. A name for the thick juice of the poppy, three pounds of which will make about one pound of opium.
  8. n. An abbreviated form of chickeen.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A young bird.
  2. n. A young chicken.
  3. n. A young (especially attractive) woman.
  4. n. A woman.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
  2. n. A chicken.
  3. n. A child or young person; -- a term of endearment.
  4. n. a young woman; -- often considered offensive.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. young bird especially of domestic fowl
  2. n. informal terms for a (young) woman

Etymologies

  1. Middle English chike, variant of chiken, chicken; see chicken.

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