What is the difference between prattle and chicken?
prattle | chicken |
(ambitransitive) To speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.
Silly, childish, talk; babble.
* c. 1603 , William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice , Act I, scene I, line 27
(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 verbs the difference between prattle and chicken
is that prattle is {{context|ambitransitive|lang=en}} to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble while chicken is {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} to avoid as a result of fear.As nouns the difference between prattle and chicken
is that prattle is silly, childish, talk; babble while chicken is {{context|countable|lang=en}} a domestic fowl, gallus gallus , especially when young.As a adjective chicken is
cowardly.prattle
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Verb
(prattl)Derived terms
* prattler * prattlinglyNoun
(-)- Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoReferences
* prattle'', in ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2000)Anagrams
* *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.
