chicken
noun
[ ˈtʃɪkɪn ]
• a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one.
• "rationing was still in force and most people kept chickens"
• a cowardly person; a coward.
chicken
adjective
• cowardly.
• "I was too chicken to go to court"
chicken
verb
• withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve.
• "the referee chickened out of giving a penalty"
Origin:
Old English cīcen, cȳcen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kieken and German Küchlein, and probably also to cock1.
