Chick vs Pullet - What's the difference?
chick | pullet |
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.}}
A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.11:
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 588:
* 1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 187:
*1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 195:
*:The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].
(slang) A spineless person; a coward.
In slang|lang=en terms the difference between chick and pullet
is that chick is (slang) a woman (especially one who is young and/or attractive) while pullet is (slang) a spineless person; a coward.As nouns the difference between chick and pullet
is that chick is a young bird while pullet is a young hen, especially one less than a year old.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
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* chick flick * chickfriend * chick litReferences
pullet
English
Noun
(en noun)- They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
- The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet , the squire himself [...] attending the door.
- he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.