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As proper nouns the difference between chicken and brick

is that chicken is a cdp in alaska while brick is .

chicken

English

(wikipedia chicken) (Gallus gallus) (Gallus gallus)

Noun

  • (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus , especially when young
  • (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
  • (countable, slang) A coward.
  • (countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Compare chickenhawk
  • (countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
  • * 1887 , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet , III:
    • "This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken ."
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Stella is no chicken .
  • A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (, the loser.)
    • Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
  • The game of dare.

    • Synonyms

    * (bird) cock (male only), chook , hen (female only), rooster (male only) * (coward) * twink * (young inexperienced person) spring chicken * See also

    Derived terms

    * chicken and egg * chicken feed * chicken fillet * chickenhawk * chicken Kiev * chickenpox * chicken salt * chickenshit * like a chicken with its head cut off * like a chicken with the pip * play chicken * run around like a chicken with its head cut off * spring chicken

    Related terms

    * chick

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • cowardly

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To avoid as a result of fear.
  • To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.

    • Derived terms

    * chicken out * chicken legs

    See also

    * egg * poultry * cockerel * hen

    Anagrams

    * English adjectives ending in -en 1000 English basic words

    brick

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
    • This wall is made of bricks .
  • (uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.
    • This house is made of brick .
  • (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
    • a plastic explosive brick
  • (dated) A helpful and reliable person.
    • Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick .
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  • (basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
    • We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
  • (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
  • (technology, slang) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
  • (firearms) a carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
  • (poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.

    • Derived terms

    * brick in one's hat * brickie * bricklayer * bricks and mortar * bricks and clicks * brick shithouse * drop a brick * hit the bricks * like a cat on a hot brick * like a ton of bricks * make bricks without straw * make bricks without straws * run into a brick wall * shit a brick * shit bricks * take to the bricks * talk to a brick wall * thick as a brick

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of brick(s).
    • All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney .

    Derived terms

    * brick shithouse

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To build with bricks.
  • * 1904 , Thomas Hansom Cockin, An Elementary Class-Book of Practical Coal-Mining , C. Lockwood and Son, page 78
    • If the ground is strong right up to the surface, a few yards are usually sunk and bricked before the engines and pit top are erected
  • * 1914 , The Mining Engineer , Institution of Mining Engineers, page 349
    • The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and [made] to share the weight with the prids.
  • To make into bricks.
  • * 1904 September 15, James C. Bennett, Walter Renton Ingalls (editor), Lead Smelting and Refining with Some Notes on Lead Mining (1906), The Engineering and Mining Journal, page 66
    • The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter.
  • (slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
  • To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
    • My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm .
  • * 2007 December 14, Joe Barr, “PacketProtector turns SOHO router into security powerhouse”, Linux.com
    • installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router.

    Antonyms

    * unbrick

    Derived terms

    * bricker * brick in * brick over * brick up * brick it

    See also

    * brickfielder

    External links

    * (wikipedia "brick") ----