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chick

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪk/

The English word “chick” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A young bird.
  2. A young chicken.
  3. An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman.
  4. A friendly fighter aircraft.
  5. A young child.
  6. A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
  7. A chickeen, or zecchino.

verb

  1. 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.

Etymology

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.

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