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Coak vs Chicken - What's the difference?

coak | chicken |

As nouns the difference between coak and chicken

is that coak is a wooden dowel while chicken is a domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.

As verbs the difference between coak and chicken

is that coak is to unite (timbers etc.) by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face while chicken is to avoid as a result of fear.

As an adjective chicken is

cowardly.

As a proper noun Chicken is

a CDP in Alaska.

coak

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a wooden dowel
  • (nautical) the brass bearing in the sheave of a block

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To unite (timbers etc.) by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face.
    • (Totten)

    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

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