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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
chicken
    adj 1: easily frightened [syn: chicken, chickenhearted,
           lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-
           bellied]
    n 1: the flesh of a chicken used for food [syn: chicken,
         poulet, volaille]
    2: a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been
       developed from the red jungle fowl [syn: chicken, Gallus
       gallus]
    3: a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
       [syn: wimp, chicken, crybaby]
    4: a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is
       continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chicken \Chick"en\, n. [AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock;
   akin to LG. kiken, k["u]ken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G.
   k["u]chkein. See Cock the animal.]
   1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden;
      same as spring chicken. "Stella is no chicken." --Swift.
      [1913 Webster]

   Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; -- so
      called because first studied during the prevalence of a
      cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true
      cholera.
      [1913 Webster]

3. U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Chicken, AK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alaska
   Population (2000):    17
   Housing Units (2000): 21
   Land area (2000):     115.411025 sq. miles (298.913169 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    115.411025 sq. miles (298.913169 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            13450
   Located within:       Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
   Location:             64.070738 N, 141.874894 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):    
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Chicken, AK
    Chicken


Thesaurus Results for Chicken:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Ancona, Andalusian, Australorp, Bantam, Brahma, Campine, Cochin, Cornish, Cornish hen, Hamburg, Hershey bar, Leghorn, Lord Fauntleroy, Milquetoast, New Hampshire red, Orpington, Percy, Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island red, Rock Cornish, Sumatra, Sussex, afraid, anemic, asthenic, auntie, aviation badge, baby, back out, badge, banty, bar, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, bi-guy, biddy, big baby, bisexual, black Minorca, black Spanish, black Sumatra, bloodless, blue Orpington, boggle, broiler, brooder, broody hen, buff Orpington, bull dyke, butch, caille, canard, caneton, capon, catamite, chanticleer, chapon, chevron, chick, chickabiddy, chicken liver, chicken out, chickenhearted, chicky, cock, cockerel, coward, cowardly, cowed, craven, cream puff, crybaby, dastard, daunted, debilitated, desert under fire, dindon, dismayed, domestic fowl, doormat, drake, drooping, droopy, duck, duckling, dull, dull tool, dunghill fowl, dyke, eagle, effeminate, effete, epaulet, etiolated, fag, faggot, faint, fainthearted, faintish, fairy, faisan, falter, fearful, feeble, femme, flabby, flaccid, flit, floppy, fowl, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, fricatrice, fruit, fryer, funk, funk out, funker, funking, funky, game fowl, gander, get cold feet, gobbler, gone, goody-goody, goose, gosling, grouse, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, gunsel, gutless, gutless wonder, hash mark, hen, hen turkey, henhearted, homo, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, imbecile, impotent, insignia of branch, intimidated, invert, invertebrate, jellyfish, languid, languorous, lesbian, lightweight, lily, lily liver, lily-livered, limber, limp, listless, lose courage, lustless, marrowless, meek soul, milk-livered, milksop, milksoppish, milksoppy, mollycoddle, mouse, mousy, muliebrous, namby-pamby, nance, nancy, nebbish, nerveless, nonentity, oak leaf, oie, old woman, old-womanish, organization insignia, overseas bar, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pansy, pantywaist, parachute badge, partlet, partridge, patch, pathic, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonhearted, pigeonneau, pip, pithless, poltroon, poltroonish, pooped, poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, powerless, prissy, pullet, punk, pushover, pusillanimous, quail, queen, queer, quitter, rabbity, roaster, rooster, rubbery, sad sack, sapless, sapphist, scaredy-cat, scuttle, service stripe, setting hen, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, sinewless, sissified, sissy, sissyish, skedaddle, slack, soft, softling, softy, sop, speckled Sussex, spineless, spread eagle, spring chicken, spunkless, squab, star, stewing chicken, strengthless, stripe, submarine badge, timid, timorous, tom, tom turkey, tribade, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, unhardened, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, volaille, weak, weak sister, weak-kneed, weakhearted, weakling, weakly, white Orpington, white Plymouth Rock, white Wyandotte, white feather, white liver, white-livered, wild duck, womanish, yellow
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