Définition "chicken" dans le Dictionnaire anglais pour apprenants Collins Cobuild English Dictionary & Thesaurus

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chicken and egg
chicken feed
chicken out
chicken pox

chicken (chickens plural & 3rd person present) (chickening present participle) (chickened past tense & past participle )

1 n-count Chickens are birds which are kept on a farm for their eggs and for their meat. (=hen)
Lionel built a coop so that they could raise chickens and have a supply of fresh eggs.

2  n-count If someone calls you a chicken, they mean that you are afraid to do something.
INFORMAL, disapproval
(=coward)
I'm scared of the dark. I'm a big chicken.
  Chicken is also an adjective., adj v-link ADJ

3 If you say that someone is counting their chickens, you mean that they are assuming that they will be successful or get something, when this is not certain.
♦ count one's chickens phrase
I don't want to count my chickens before they are hatched.

4 If you describe a situation as a chicken and egg situation, you mean that it is impossible to decide which of two things caused the other one.
♦ chicken and egg phrase
It's a chicken and egg situation. Does the deficiency lead to the eczema or has the eczema led to certain deficiencies?

5
→ chickens come home to roost
→ roost chicken out phrasal verb If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
INFORMAL His mother complains that he makes excuses to chicken out of family occasions such as weddings... V P of n

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