Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A young chicken.
- n. The young of any bird.
- n. A child.
- n. Slang A girl or young woman.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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 . - To peep; cheep; make the characteristic cry of a young chick.
- To sprout, as seed in the ground; vegetate.
- To crack.
- n. A crack; a flaw.
- 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.
- n. A name for the thick juice of the poppy, three pounds of which will make about one pound of opium.
- n. An abbreviated form of chickeen.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology A young bird.
- n. A young chicken.
- n. slang (Discuss(+) this sense) A young (especially attractive) woman.
- n. slang A woman.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
- n. A chicken.
- n. A child or young person; -- a term of endearment.
- n. slang a young woman; -- often considered offensive.
WordNet 3.0
- n. young bird especially of domestic fowl
- n. informal terms for a (young) woman
Etymologies
- From Middle English chike, variation of chiken ("chicken"), from Old English ċicen, cycen ("chicken"). Sense of "young woman" first attested in Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (1927) . More at chicken. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English chike, variant of chiken, chicken; see chicken. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term chick lit is "detrimental," but not because the literature is bad or hurtful, but because commercial literature by and for women continues to be seen as less substantial than its "male" counterpart.”
Rachel Kramer Bussel: Interview With Lynn Harris: Death By Chick Lit
“The closest thing to interesting that SJP said is that she hates the term chick flicks, and that Sex and the City is a movie for men and women.”
Shootout discusses "Chick Flicks" and Interviews Sarah Jessica Parkers
“So as I'm reading this piece I can't help but think that we are now moving back into a climate like the late 80s (remember the films of John Cusack and Kevin Costner at that time) where the romantic comedies (before the term chick flicks was coined) will again be starring men.”
“I can't believe that this chick is an international sex symbol starring in major motion pictures and meanwhile Markie Post can't get work anymore ...”
“This chick is an amazing cook - makes everything from scratch like every night for dinner for her and her husband.”
“If there's a problem here it's about the word "chick".”
“FB Nation, this chick is our BritBrit — we must take responsibility.”
“If its real this chick is obviously just smarter than her sister.”
“Often times, they are merely listening to the sound of your voice while looking at pretty pictures, and not really internalizing that a chick is that fluffy yellow guy on the page.”
“My inspiration was a 1934 article by Viktor Hamburger reporting on the effects of limb extirpation in chick embryos.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chick’.
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animals (1 syllable)
A list of common animal names. Keep the list to 1 syllable words.No scientific names. No proper names like 'Fluffy' the elephant.Insects and other creatures (even ficticious) are welcome!You can ...
dog, cat, bear, bee, ass, ape, horse, squid, bug, hare, hawk, pig and 138 more...
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MUSIC - jazz
Afro, habanera, pentatonic scale, bop, bebop, jazz, cool jazz, pentatonic, malignment, music genre, jazz musician, syncopate and 437 more...
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You animal!
Names of animals that are also used to describe kinds of people. Nouns only, preferably single word.
For a related list, see sionnach's beastly verbs.rabbit, shark, hog, pussycat, bear, bull, skunk, hawk, wildcat, buck, slug, heifer and 112 more...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
depict, delegation, daughter, Dardanus, Dardanian, Dardan, Hellespont, cupbearer, Crete, Cretan, Creon, copulate and 713 more...
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femanimales
Animal words and phrases that are used when talking about women. Some of these are found offensive, but this can be discussed on the words' pages. This list is just a list.
pussy, kitten, cougar, beaver, bitch, chick, jenny, cow, filly, vixen, fox, la passera and 10 more...
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Whooping Crane
Words for the Whooping Crane Alphabet book
ultralight, patuxent, maryland, wisconsin, florida, people, chick, juvenile, adult, swamp monster, teach, learn and 48 more...
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Unwording
Outlawed words and books, like this.
samizdat, satanic verses, profanity, oriental, antilanguage, biddy, aviatrix, squaw, deaf-mute, border patrolman, cassandra, niggardly and 45 more...
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Ick!
Inspired by madmouth's Ugh! list.
brick, quick, airsick, lick, rollick, click, crick, kick, candlestick, cowlick, Toothpick, ickle and 17 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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All Those Jazz Words
Words coined or popularized during the Roaring '20s.
bob, fuzz, back-seat driver, jalopy, step on it, cop a plea, gimmick, hijack, speakeasy, to take (someone)..., cockeyed, scofflaw and 74 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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It was good enough for Billy Burroughs
smack, dope, junk, mud, h, skag, black tar, horse, brown sugar, chiva, boy, black and 237 more...
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Ladies' Night
girl, lady, madame, miss, missy, woman, dame, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, grandmother and 50 more...
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Book of People
Nouns to denote types of people and their natures. Should be able to sum up a person in that one word.
cove, chap, gentleman, lady, lass, lad, flaneur, dude, pal, chum, homie, rudeboy and 41 more...
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Baby Animals
chick, crocklets, whelp, foal, duckling, eaglet, hatchling, fingerling, fry, polliwog, gosling, cheeper and 21 more...
Tweets
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