Chicken vs Chuck - What's the difference?
chicken | chuck |
(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.
(cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
* 1975 , Thomas Fabbricante, William J. Sultan, Practical Meat Cutting and Merchandising: Beef ,
* 2001 , Bruce Aidells, Denis Kelly, The Complete Meat Cookbook: A Juicy and Authoritative Guide , page 190:
* 2006 , , The Meat Buyers Guide: Beef, Lamb, Veal, Pork, and Poultry ,
(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
* 1824 , Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions , Volume 42,
* 1912 , Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley, American Machinist Grinding Book ,
* 2003', Julie K. Petersen, “'''chuck ”, entry in ''Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary ,
* 2008 , Ramon Francis Bonaquist, NHCRP Report 614: Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice ,
(dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
A clucking sound.
* 1998 , Scott Freeman, Jon C. Herron, Evolutionary Analysis ,
(slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
* Shakespeare
A gentle touch or tap.
(informal) A casual throw.
(slang) An act of vomiting.
(cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
To make a clucking sound.
To call, as a hen her chickens.
To touch or tap gently.
(informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
(informal) To discard, to throw away.
(slang) To vomit.
(cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
(South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
(obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
* 1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too'', '' ,
In countable terms the difference between chicken and chuck
is that chicken is a domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young while chuck is a Chuck Taylor shoe (usually referred to in plural form, Chucks).As an adjective chicken
is cowardly.chicken
English
(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 * henchuck
English
Etymology 1
Variant of chock.Noun
(en noun)page 141,
- Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.
- Often, pieces of the chuck are sold boneless as flat chunks of meat or rolled and tied.
page 113,
- The chucks' are that portion of foresaddle remaining after excluding the hotel rack and plate portions of the breast as described in Item No. 306. The veal foreshanks (Item No. 312) and brisket may either be attached or separated and packaged with the ' chucks .
page 88,
- I have had a chuck' of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the ' chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required.
page 322,
- Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks .
page 181,
- A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks' to hold the two pieces of fiber optic filament to be spliced. If it has '''chucks''', they are typically either clamping '''chucks''' or vacuum ' chucks .
page 30,
- The first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrepTM is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic dialect term for chicken, imitative of a hen's cluck.Noun
(en noun)page 604,
- The call always starts with a whine, to which the males add from 0 to 6 chucks'. In choice tests, females approach calls that contain '''chucks''' in preference to calls that contain no ' chucks .
- Are you all right, chuck ?
- Pray, chuck , come hither.
- She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.
Verb
(en verb)- (Dryden)
- Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
- This food?s gone off - you?d better chuck it.
- Let's chuck .
- (Marston)
Derived terms
* chuck a charley * chuck a wobbly * chuck in * chuck up * upchuckEtymology 3
From woodchuck.Alternative forms
* 'chuckNoun
(en noun)page 50,
- Chucks' are plentiful, and most farmers are glad to have the incurable diggers kept at tolerable population levels. For some reason, my family didn?t eat ' ?chucks . Few families in the area did.