The English word for chicken is: chicken

chicken ? English ? ['t?k?n] ? American ? ['t?k?n]

n.? Chicken; chicken; timid

adj. ? Cowardly; timid

vi.? Losing courage

Word usage

n. (noun)

Chicken can refer to chickens as poultry or to chicken meat as food. It is an individual noun, countable, when used as "chicken", and a material noun, uncountable, when used as "chicken".

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Common Sentence Patterns:

1. Used as a noun (n.)

He has a chicken farm.

This soup tastes of chicken.

2. used as an adjective (adj.)

I was terrified, but I didn't want the others to think I was chicken.

They thought I was chicken when I refused to go with them.

3. used as intransitive verb (vi.)

The boy chickened out of climbing up the tree.

I wanted to tell the boss what I thought, but I chickened out at the last minute.