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chicken | chock |

As a proper noun chicken

is a cdp in alaska.

As a noun chock is

any wooden block used as a wedge or filler or chock can be (obsolete) an encounter.

As a verb chock is

to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch or chock can be (obsolete) to encounter or chock can be to make a dull sound.

As an adverb chock is

(nautical) entirely; quite.

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

    chock

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from (etyl) *?okka (compare Breton ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any wooden block used as a wedge or filler
  • (nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
  • Blocks made of either wood, plastic or metal, used to keep a parked aircraft in position.
  • * 2000 , Lindbergh: A Biography , by Leonard Mosley, page 82
    • On April 28, 1927, on Dutch Flats, below San Diego, signaled chocks -away to those on the ground below him.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
  • To fill up, as a cavity.
  • * Fuller
    • The woodwork exactly chocketh into joints.
  • (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
    • Derived terms
    * chock full * chocks away * chock-a-block * unchock

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (nautical) Entirely; quite.
    • chock''' home; '''chock aft

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An encounter.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To encounter.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 3

    Onomatopoeic.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a dull sound.
  • * 1913 , D.H. Lawrence,
    • She saw him hurry to the door, heard the bolt chock . He tried the latch.
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