Chick

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A young chicken.
  • noun. One of the young of any bird.
  • noun. A child.
  • noun. A girl or young woman.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To peep; cheep; make the characteristic cry of a young chick.
  • noun. A chicken; particularly, the young of the domestic hen, and of some other birds, as partridges.
  • To sprout, as seed in the ground; vegetate.
  • To crack.
  • noun. An abbreviated form of chickeen.
  • noun. A crack; a flaw.
  • noun. A name for the thick juice of the poppy, three pounds of which will make about one pound of opium.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
  • noun. A chicken.
  • noun. A child or young person; -- a term of endearment.
  • noun. a young woman; -- often considered offensive.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A young bird.
  • noun. A young chicken.
  • noun. (Discuss(+) this sense) A young (especially attractive) woman.
  • noun. A woman.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. young bird especially of domestic fowl
  • noun. informal terms for a (young) woman
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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    chicken  
    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    chicken  fille  gallus gallus  girl  miss  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Crick  Dick  Frick  Hick  Mick  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    babe  baby  bird  bitch  blonde  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Bantam  Jane  angel  avifauna  babe