English Explanatory Dictionary

chick

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A young bird.
  2. A young chicken.
  3. An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman.
  4. A friendly fighter aircraft.
  5. A young child.
verb
  1. To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
  2. To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.
noun
  1. A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/t͡ʃɪk/ en-us-chick.ogg

Word forms

chick chicks chicken chicking chicked chik

Etymology

From Middle English chicke, chike, variation of chiken (“chicken", also "chick”), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”). Sense of "young woman" dates to at least 1860 (compare chit (“young, pert woman”)). More at chicken.

Synonyms

nestling fledgling babe bint bird cake chick colleen cutty damoiselle damsel elrig frail gal gel girl girlie girly grill hottie lass lassie little girl maggie maid maid child maiden minoress miss missy moggy poppet pucelle puss quean tart wan wench woman child baggage bim bitch blone broad covess dame donna feme femme femoid frau frow gash gentlelady ginch hen ho huwoman lady maness

Related words

pullet

Derived words

AFChick biker chick checkout chick chickatrice chick boy chickboy chick car chickdom chick flick chickfriend chickhood chickie chickification chickless chicklet chicklike chickling chick lit chick magnet chicksploitation chickweed chick with a dick chicky chix0r dabchick lunachick peachick side chick squab chick turkey-chick chicked

Translations

Albanian: zogth Arabic: فَرْخ Arabic: رَأْل Arabic: كتكوت Armenian: ճուտ Aromanian: pulj Aromanian: puljiu Aromanian: pulju Asturian: pollu Asturian: pitu Asturian: pitín Azerbaijani: cücə Bashkir: бала Bashkir: себеш Belarusian: птушаня́ Belarusian: птушанё Central Bikol: siwo Bulgarian: пи́ленце Bulgarian: пи́ле Chinese Mandarin: 雛鳥 /雏鸟 Chinese Mandarin: 小雛兒 /小雏儿 West Circassian: кӏэтжъый Czech: kuře Czech: ptáče Danish: fugleunge Danish: ungfugl Dutch: kuiken Esperanto: birdido Finnish: linnunpoika Finnish: linnunpoikanen Finnish: untuvikko French: oisillon Galician: pito Galician: polo Galician: piouco Georgian: ბარტყი German: Küken German: Vogeljunges German: Jungvogel Greek: νεοσσός Greek: νεαρό πουλί Greek: πουλάκι Ancient Greek: νεοσσός Hebrew: אֶפְרוֹחַ Hebrew: גּוֹזָל Hungarian: kismadár Hungarian: fióka Ido: ucelyuno Italian: pulcino Japanese: 雛 Kazakh: балапан Korean: 새끼새 Kumyk: жюжек Kumyk: жижек Kumyk: чӀикӀа Kumyk: жига Central Kurdish: جوجْک Kyrgyz: балапан Latgalian: cuoļs Latin: pullus Latvian: cālis Latvian: cālēns Lithuanian: paukščiukas Macedonian: пиле Malay: anak burung Maltese: ferħ Maltese: ferħa
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