chick

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  1. noun A young chicken.
  2. noun The young of any bird.
  3. noun A child.
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  • Named Tango, "because it takes two to make a Tango," the chick is the very first penguin in the zoo to have two daddies. —  WordPress.com News
  • This chick is a moron For more morons check Uncoached's Facebook Group Or get a load of me on twitter The Wash Sindi Bretherton needed to be posted twice - —  ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs
  • In a comic sort of way, we humans and the chick were all motionless. —  raincoaster
  • To cheat is bad enough but to rape is criminal, the chick was after money; think before accusing someone of rape, even if he's a celebrity that - normally - nobody really cares about, it's still a serious accusation ... —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • I tried calling the chick, but she doesn't like to answer her phone, and seems to ignore voice mail. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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Etymologies (7)

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

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  1. from Middle English *chikke, chike, short for chiken: see chicken, of which chick is now regarded as a diminutive form.
  2. Middle English chikken, also assibilated chichen (see chich), a variation of chuck: see chuck. Prob. mentally associated with chick, which is ult. from the same imitative root.
  3. from Middle English chikken (chykkyn, Prompt. Parv.), sprout, prob. a variant of chinken, related to chinen, chine, chink, crack: see chine, chink. apparently not connected with chick, but cf. Latin pullulare, sprout, from pullulus, a chick, a sprout, diminutive pullus, a young fowl (see pullet). The resemblance to chit, v., sprout, would thus be accidental; but there may have been some association of thought between the two words.
  4. from chick, v. Cf. chink, n.
  5. Also cheek; Anglo-Indian, representing Hind, chiq.
  6. East Indian
 

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