chicken
- IPA[ˈCHikən]
美式
- a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one；meat from a chicken
- cowardly
- withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve
noun: chicken, plural noun: chickens
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one rationing was still in force and most people kept chickens
- ▪ meat from a chicken roast chicken
- 2. informal, derogatory a cowardly person; a coward.
- ▪ a game in which the first person to lose nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser.
形容詞
- 1. informal cowardly they were too chicken to follow the murderers into the mountains
動詞
- 1. informal withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve the referee chickened out of giving a penalty
