What is the difference between drivel and chicken?
drivel | chicken |
senseless talk; nonsense
saliva, drool
(obsolete) A fool; an idiot.
(obsolete) A servant; a drudge.
To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly.
To be weak or foolish; to dote.
*
(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.
As nouns the difference between drivel and chicken
is that drivel is senseless talk; nonsense while chicken is {{context|countable|lang=en}} a domestic fowl, gallus gallus , especially when young.As verbs the difference between drivel and chicken
is that drivel is to have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool while chicken is {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} to avoid as a result of fear.As a adjective chicken is
cowardly.drivel
English
Noun
(-)- (Sir Philip Sidney)
- (Huloet)
Verb
- This drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
- (Dryden)
Synonyms
* To have saliva drip from the mouth : drool * To talk nonsense : See also .References
*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.
