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  • July 23, 2008 at 4:56 am i haz also kept chickenz and dey are bery chickenish, meaning bery cowardish… dey would run away if dey see da kitteh within seeing range!

    Tweet tweet - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Ray Harryhausen's good stuff (note giant crab, bee, and chickenish thing in the poster above -- and that's not all!) is intercut with long, boring bits of dialog as our castaways struggle to survive on (badummm!) the Mysterious Island.

    Mysterious Island Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • Ray Harryhausen's good stuff (note giant crab, bee, and chickenish thing in the poster above -- and that's not all!) is intercut with long, boring bits of dialog as our castaways struggle to survive on (badummm!) the Mysterious Island.

    Archive 2005-09-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • Hell no -- that would be chickenish procrastination.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • I was about as old as Doc, and we wasn't either of us very chickenish, but I thought Doc was the finest man I'd ever saw, an 'exceptin' what I'm tellin 'you, I ain't ever had cause to change my mind.

    Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent Ellis Parker Butler 1903

  • But I was not a painter -- only a longshore mooncalf -- and my eyes swam and my tongue swelled till I thought it would stick between my teeth as those of poor rogues do on the gallows, and I was chickenish enough to wish to blubber.

    Marjorie 1898

  • He did not like to go contrary to the express command of his mother on the one hand, and he did not like to incur the derision of Thomas on the other, for he would tell it to all the boys who would call him "chickenish."

    Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway Oliver Optic 1859

  • "You are a first-rate fellow, Charley, but you are too chickenish by half," said Tim Bunker.

    All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake A Sequel to "The Boat Club" Oliver Optic 1859

  • Those readers spring-chickenish enough not to remember the perm's Eighties heyday will have no idea the knee-jerk terror that the very word can produce in those of us of a certain age.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Those readers spring-chickenish enough not to remember the perm's Eighties heyday will have no idea the knee-jerk terror that the very word can produce in those of us of a certain age.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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