chicken
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noun
1. a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one.
ニワトリ(→ cock, hen, rooster, chick); 若鶏, ひよこ
meat from a chicken:
鶏肉, チキン (!ニワトリと見てわかる形ならC)
e.g. roast chicken.
2. informal a game in which the first person to lose nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser.
(子供の遊びの)肝だめし; 我慢くらべ, 脅し合い
a coward.
｟くだけて｠ 臆病者, いくじなし(coward)
3. informal (among homosexuals) an adolescent male.
若者
adjective predicative informal
cowardly:
｟くだけて｠ ; 〖be ～〗 臆病で(cowardly)
e.g. they were too chicken to follow the murderers into the mountains.
verb no object (chicken out) informal
withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve:
｟くだけて｠ 〈人などが〉おじけづいて «…(すること)を» やめる(out) «of (doing)» ; «…に対して» 尻込みする «on»
e.g. the referee chickened out of giving a penalty.
PHRASES
don't count your chickens before they're hatched
see count1.
ORIGIN
Old English cīcen, cȳcen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kieken and German Küchlein, and probably also to cock1.