Chick vs Muttonbirding - What's the difference?
chick | muttonbirding |
A young bird.
A young chicken.
(slang) (rft-sense) A woman (especially one who is young and/or attractive).
* {{quote-book, year=1927, title=Elmer Gantry, author=Sinclair Lewis
, passage=He had determined that marriage now would cramp his advancement in the church and that, anyway, he didn't want to marry this brainless little fluffy chick , who would be of no help in impressing rich parishioners.}}
* {{quote-book, year=2004, title=Bad moon rising?, author=Tess Pendergrass
, passage=I can't believe you've got a hot chick in that ratty apartment with you.}}
The seasonal harvesting of petrel chicks, especially shearwater species, for food, oil and feathers.
As nouns the difference between chick and muttonbirding
is that chick is a young bird while muttonbirding is the seasonal harvesting of petrel chicks, especially shearwater species, for food, oil and feathers.As a verb chick
is (obsolete) to sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.chick
English
Noun
(en noun)- Three cool chicks / Are walking down the street / Swinging their hips — song "Three Cool Cats" by
