chicken

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  1. noun The common domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus) or its young.
  2. noun Any of various similar or related birds.
  3. noun The flesh of the common domestic fowl.

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English chiken, from Old English cīcen.

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  1. from Middle English chiken, chekin (also shortened chike. later modern chick: see chick), from Anglo-Saxon cicen for *cycen ( = Dutch kuiken, kieken = Low German küken = G. dial, küchen; cf. equivalent G. küchlein and English chickling), neuter, a chicken, in form diminutive of coc, cocc, a cock, but in sense more general: see cock. Cf. Middle English chikken, peep, cheep, as young chickens: see chick.
 

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