Chicken vs Liquor - What's the difference?
chicken | liquor |
(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.
(obsolete) A liquid.
(obsolete) A drinkable liquid.
A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
(chiefly, US) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation.
In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.
To drink liquor, usually to excess.
To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
(obsolete) To grease.
* Shakespeare
As a proper noun chicken
is a cdp in alaska.As a noun liquor is
(obsolete) a liquid.As a verb liquor is
to drink liquor, usually to excess.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 * henliquor
English
Alternative forms
* liquour (obsolete)Noun
Synonyms
* (strong alcoholic drink) spirits (British and Australasian English) * (liquid obtained by cooking food) stock, pot liquor (American English), broth, bouillonDerived terms
* hold one's liquor * liquor lounge * liquor storeVerb
(en verb)- Liquor fishermen's boots.
- (Francis Bacon)