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chicken

noun as in person afraid to try something

noun as in farm fowl

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Example Sentences

Frozen 2 all but drags Elsa’s queerness into the text, though it chickens out at the last minute.

From Vox

Tyga launched TYGA BITES, a “celebrity-owned virtual dining concept,” aka chicken nuggets you order through Grubhub.

From Eater

Swallowing eye-popping amounts of fried chicken, instant noodles and hot dogs have made these gluttons internet stars.

From Ozy

We tested this 20,000-BTU propane grill when we had family visiting and were able to cook enough chicken thighs and legs for six people.

Sharing the boat with a pig, a donkey, and a chicken, they set sail for the Seychelles, more than a thousand miles to the west.

From Fortune

Wearing the right foot of a chicken was considered good luck.

While the chicken today might be the least exotic bird one can think of, it was once a gift that wowed kings.

The chicken, to this day, is valued for its medicinal properties.

In Rome, he writes, the chicken “predicted the outcome of battles.”

Lawler is more interested in the more fascinating story of how the chicken spread.

Squinty could look out, but the slats were as close together as those in a chicken coop, and the little pig could not get out.

So Hettie put the chicken in a cage, with some wool to cover it, and fed it several times every day, till it came to know her.

Lyn was no chicken-hearted weakling, to sit down and weep unavailingly in time of peril.

Not so much, either; 'cause a chicken will stir round an' scratch a livin' out the ground, sooner 'n starve.

There was no one who could make such excellent coffee or fry a chicken so golden brown as she.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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