Chicken vs Chock - What's the difference?
chicken | chock |
(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.
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,
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
To fill up, as a cavity.
* Fuller
(nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
(nautical) Entirely; quite.
To make a dull sound.
* 1913 , D.H. Lawrence,
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
- "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 * henchock
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from (etyl) *?okka (compare Breton ).Noun
(en noun)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)- The woodwork exactly chocketh into joints.
Derived terms
* chock full * chocks away * chock-a-block * unchockAdverb
(-)- chock''' home; '''chock aft
Etymology 2
(etyl) choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).Etymology 3
Onomatopoeic.Verb
(en verb)- She saw him hurry to the door, heard the bolt chock . He tried the latch.