Chicken vs Brood - What's the difference?
chicken | brood |
(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:
* Jonathan Swift
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.)
The game of dare.
To avoid as a result of fear.
To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
* Bible, Luke xiii. 34
(uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
The children in one family.
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
* Chapman
(mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
To protect.
To dwell upon moodily and at length.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Tennyson
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(wikipedia chicken) (Gallus gallus) (Gallus gallus)Noun
- "This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken ."
- Stella is no chicken .
- Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
Synonyms
* (bird) cock (male only), chook , hen (female only), rooster (male only) * (coward) * twink * (young inexperienced person) spring chicken * See alsoDerived 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 chickenVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* chicken out * chicken legsSee also
* egg * poultry * cockerel * henbrood
English
Noun
(en noun)- As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
- Flocks of the airy brood , / (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
See also
* flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin * cicadaVerb
(en verb)- In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
- Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
- He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
- Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
- when with downcast eyes we muse and brood