platypus Noun
An egg-laying, semi-aquatic mammal with a bill resembling that of a duck, that has a mole-like body, a tail resembling that of a beaver, a waterproof pelt, and flat webbed feet — males have poisonous spurs on the inside of the back legs; Ornithorhynchus anatinus
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Synonyms
* duck-billed platypus
* duckbill
* duckmole
* watermole
Derived terms
* platypusary
* platypussary
See also
* echidna
* monotreme
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chicken 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
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
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