chick

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

chickschickenchik

1.
A young bird.
Near-synonyms: nestling, fledgling
Đồng nghĩa: nestling, fledgling
2.
(colloquial)An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman.
This chick's a machine but her friend is way more fun.
They're going to have a chick weekend. No guys allowed.
He'll fall for any chick with a nice smile.
Đồng nghĩa: 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, babe, baggage, bim, bint, bird, bitch, blone, broad, chick, covess, dame, donna, feme, femme, femoid, frau, frow, gal, gash, gentlelady, ginch, hen, ho, huwoman, lady, maness, mort, mulier, placket, pussy, queen, she, sheila, skirt, squaw, thot, tía, twist, vaginoid, wan, wife, woman, wommon, womon, womxn, womyn, wimmin
3.
(slang)(military, slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.
4.
(dated, endearing)A young child.
5.
(India, Pakistan)A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
1890, Rudyard Kipling, Letter to William Canton, 5 April, 1890, in Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.) Writings on writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 34, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-AQStA5QMjwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Then, through a cautiously lifted chick, the old scene stands revealed […]

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

chicks

V_ing/Gerund

chicking

V_ed/pp

chicked

1.
(obsolete)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.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

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.