chicken

Kar taneleri büyük beyaz tavuklar gibi görününceye kadar gittikçe büyüdü. - The snow-flakes became larger and larger, till they appeared like great white chickens.

Tavuklar yiyecek arıyordu. - Chickens were looking for food.

cowardly

cesaretsiz

Tom utangaç ve cesaretsizdir. - Tom is shy and cowardly.

(Gıda) kremalı tavuk çorbası

fried chicken

(Gıda) kızarmış tavuk

Tom, kızarmış tavuk seviyor. - Tom loves fried chicken.

Kızarmış tavuk servis edeceğiz. - We'll serve fried chicken.

grilled chicken

(Gıda) piliç ızgara

play game of chicken

kaçak oynamak

roast chicken

(Gıda) piliç kızartma

roasted chicken

(Gıda) piliç kızartma

roasted chicken

(Gıda) kızarmış piliç

spit roasted chicken

(Gıda) piliç çevirme

greater prairie chicken

be spring chicken

bahar tavuk olmak

chickens

tavuk

Tavuklar yiyecek arıyordu. - Chickens were looking for food.

Amcam tavuklara bakmamı istedi. - My uncle asked me to take care of the chickens.

greater prairie chicken

büyük cayır tavuğu

the chicken and the egg situation

(Felsefe) "Yumurta mi tavuktan, tavuk mu yumurtadan çıkmıştır?" ikilemi

{s} alçak

{s} namert

{s} korkak

Bu korkakçaydı, üzgünüm. - It was cowardly, and I'm sorry.

Köpek ne kadar küçük ve korkaksa, o kadar kızgın havlar. - The smaller and cowardly the dog, the angrier it barks.

English - English

Definition of chicken in English English dictionary: A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; A coward; cowardly; To avoid as a result of fear; A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the loser; To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin; A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young; The game of dare; A young or inexperienced person
This case will make a stir, sir, he remarked. It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken..; The meat from this bird eaten as food; {n} the young of hens, a darling; 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. I don't want to count my chickens before they are hatched; A young person; a child; esp; a young woman; a maiden; {i} domesticated fowl that is bred for its eggs and meat; meat of a chicken; coward (Slang); inexperienced person (Slang) ; young gay man (Vulgar Slang); unnecessary regulations, petty regulations (Slang); {s} made from chicken, containing chicken (of food); having the flavor of chicken (of food); fearful, lacking courage (Slang); unimportant, trivial (Slang); > wanzi; disapproval If someone calls you a chicken, they mean that you are afraid to do something. I'm scared of the dark. I'm a big chicken. = coward Chicken is also an adjective. Why are you so chicken, Gregory?; 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. It's a chicken and egg situation. Does the deficiency lead to the eczema or has the eczema led to certain deficiencies?; n ayam; a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops the flesh of a chicken used for food easily frightened; A young person of either sex; a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy; the clean combination of flesh and skin with or without accompanying bone, derived from the parts or whole carcasses of chicken or a combination thereof, exclusive of feathers, heads, feet and entrails; the flesh of a chicken used for food; A young bird or fowl, esp; easily frightened; a young barnyard fowl; Chickens are birds which are kept on a farm for their eggs and for their meat. Lionel built a coop so that they could raise chickens and have a supply of fresh eggs. free-range chickens. = hen Chicken is the flesh of this bird eaten as food. roast chicken with wild mushrooms. chicken soup; a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops; kai; a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl; chickens come home to roost: see roost. chicken out to decide at the last moment not to do something you said you would do, because you are afraid. One of the most widely domesticated poultry species (Gallus gallus), raised worldwide for its meat and eggs. Descended from the wild red jungle fowl of India, chickens have been domesticated for at least 4,000 years. Not until the 19th century did chicken meat and eggs become mass-production commodities. Modern high-volume poultry farms, with rows of cages stacked indoors for control of heat, light, and humidity, began to proliferate in Britain 1920 and in the U.S. after World War II (see factory farming). Females are raised for meat and eggs; immature males are castrated to become meat birds called capons. See also prairie chicken; {f} act in a cowardly manner, run in fear; A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus; To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chickens, for example, bumps on the skin; moa
Chicken Licken: The main character in this story, a hysterical hen, sometimes alternatively named Chicken Little under a different title
Foxy Loxy, for instance, accumulated negative karma when he tricked Chicken Licken. He might suffer in this life by contactingsic] the avian flu!.
Chicken Licken: A children's fable about a hen who, in the classical version, believes the sky is falling after an acorn hits her head, journeys to inform the King, and is finally eaten by Foxy Loxy. Also known by other names including The Sky is Falling
Chicken Little: The main character in this story, a hysterical hen, alternatively named Chicken Licken under a different title
Chicken Little: A children’s fable about a hen who, in the classical version, believes the sky is falling after an acorn hits her head, journeys to inform the King, and is finally eaten by Foxy Loxy. Also known by other names including The Sky is Falling
Chicken Little: By extension, one who panics at the slightest provocation
chicken Kiev: A dish in which a breast of chicken is stuffed with butter, garlic and parsley, rolled, breaded and fried
chicken Marengo: A dish of floured, browned chicken cooked in tomato sauce and herbs
chicken breast: meat from the body of a chicken
Lunch today is chicken breast with carrots.
chicken burger: The chicken patty used in such a sandwich
chicken burger: A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients
chicken cannon: A device used during aircraft testing to discharge bird carcasses into airframes and engines to determine resistance to such impacts
The most unusual thing sold is the chicken cannon, a 10-foot-long pneumatic gun used at a test site to fire dead chickens at aircraft wings.
chicken cannons: plural form of chicken cannon
chicken colonel: A member of the U. S. armed forces having the rank of full colonel, as distinct from a lieutenant colonel
In 1944, when many of his West Point classmates—including Omar Bradley and Dwight Eisenhower—had won general's stars, Van Fleet was still a chicken colonel commanding a regiment.
chicken coop: a building, often wooden, in which a small number of poultry are housed
chicken cordon bleu: Thin slices of chicken pressed together and breaded, with a filling of cheese and a ham slice inside, and baked or sautéed
chicken feed: A very small or insignificant quantity, especially of money
Some of them old skinflints has no heart Al but why should I fight with a old man over chicken feed like $10?.
chicken feed: Food (usually grain) given to poultry
chicken fillet: A piece of rubber or silicone placed in a woman's bra under the breast to increase apparent size and/or create more cleavage
chicken gun: Alternative name of chicken cannon
chicken hawk: An advocate of war or military action who is avoiding personal military service, or avoided it in the past
chicken hawk: Any of the North American hawk species (Cooper's hawk, sharp-shinned hawk and red-tailed hawk), or counterparts elsewhere, mistakenly believed to be pests
chicken hawk: An adult male preferring younger male sexual partners
chicken hawks: plural form of chicken hawk
chicken leg: A cooked leg of a chicken
chicken legs: plural form of chicken leg
chicken nugget: A small, boneless piece of chicken in batter
chicken nuggets: plural form of chicken nugget
chicken of the woods: Any edible mushroom of the Laetiporus genus
chicken or egg question: Alternative spelling of chicken-or-egg question
The apparent one-to-one correspondence between comets and meteor showers raised a chicken or egg question which was not fully resolved until the middle of the twentieth century.
chicken out: To shy away from a daring task; to decline, refuse, or avoid something due to fear or uncertainty
We almost convinced his dad to ride the roller coaster, but he chickened out when he saw how high it went.
chicken run: an enclosed area, attached to a chicken coop, in which poultry are allowed to run around and peck
chicken salt: A seasoning comprising table salt blended with herbs, spices, flavourings, and sometimes monosodium glutamate, often containing chicken extracts
Chicken salt. That’s all it was. He wanted chicken salt and he got ordinary salt and so he whinged at me.”.
chicken scratch: Cramped or illegible handwriting
chicken scratches: plural form of chicken scratch
chicken soup: Any soup made with either pieces of chicken or chicken broth as its main ingredient
He should have guessed that her great-great-grandmother's secret chicken soup recipe was a can from the store.
chicken strips: Chicken fingers, or chicken tenders. A style of batter-fried chicken without skin or bones
chicken strips: The band of unscuffed tire surface at the outer edges of the contact surface
chicken tractor: A movable enclosure in which chickens can scratch the ground for food
chicken turtle: An uncommon freshwater turtle found in the southeast of the United States, similar in appearance to the Eastern painted turtle but with an unusually long, striped neck, a yellow stripe on each of its legs and a net-like pattern on its carapace
chicken wing: A wing of a chicken cleaned and carved for use in cooking
chicken wing: A cooked wing of a chicken
chicken wings: plural form of chicken wing
chicken wire: a mesh of wire, usually galvanized, with a hexagonal pattern, generally used for making fences, especially for enclosures for small farm animals and pets
You'll recall that normally any old hen had sense enough not to run or fly into a chicken wire fence, but the same old hen at the sight of a hawk would lose all judgment about fences, and plunge headlong into it..
chicken wire: a type of such material, differentiated by material, coating, wire thickness, width, and mesh size
chicken wires: plural form of chicken wire
chicken-feed: Alternative spelling of chicken feed
chicken-fried steak: A Southern US dish of tenderized cube steak coated with seasoned flour and pan-fried
chicken-hearted: not brave; lacking courage; cowardly
These chicken-hearted bosses always seem to give in at the first sign of a strike.
chicken-or-egg question: A question to decide which of two interdependent things happened first
chicken-shit: Behavior characteristic of a coward
chicken-shit: Contemptibly unimportant
chicken-shit: Something petty or contemptible
chicken-shit: Cowardly
How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.
chicken-shit: A coward
I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chicken-shit.
chicken-turtle: A variant form of chicken turtle
chicken-wing: A cooked (usually breaded) wing of a chicken
chicken-wing: Passing a hard-hit ball with the upper arm extended out from the body. This usually has the lower arm pulled in toward the body, and is reminiscent of a chicken's wings when trussed
Don't chicken-wing it!.
chicken-fight: fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders
chicken and egg situation: (Felsefe) The Chicken or the egg causality dilemma is commonly stated as "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" To ancient philosophers, the question about the first chicken or egg also evoked the questions of how life and the universe in general began
chicken coop: (Also chicken house) A building where chickens are kept on a farm or homestead
chicken house: (Also chicken coop) A building where chickens are kept on a farm or homestead
chicken mole: (Gıda) Chicken Mole Poblano is a complex dish to make when it is made in traditional fashion. A number of different chili peppers can be used for the sauce. The mole also includes spices like cumin, ground nuts, Mexican chocolate or unsweetened chocolate. Onions and garlic help to balance the flavors
chicken or egg situation: (Felsefe) The Chicken or the egg causality dilemma is commonly stated as "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" To ancient philosophers, the question about the first chicken or egg also evoked the questions of how life and the universe in general began
Chicken Little: a story for children in which a chicken called Chicken Little thinks that the sky is falling and persuades many other animal friends that great danger is coming
chicken Kiev: A dish made of a rolled chicken fillet that is filled with butter, coated with batter, and fried until crisp
chicken and rice: rice and chicken cooked together with or without other ingredients and variously seasoned
chicken breast: breast area of a chicken (often sliced and breaded for frying)
chicken broth: a stock made with chicken
chicken cacciatore: chicken casserole prepared with tomatoes and mushrooms and herbs in the Italian style
chicken casserole: chicken cooked and served in a casserole
chicken coop: a farm building for housing poultry
chicken coop: {i} henhouse, structure in which chickens are housed, chicken-shed
chicken cordon bleu: thin slices of chicken stuffed with cheese and ham and then sauteed
chicken dung: chicken droppings
chicken farm: farm where chickens are raised for sale
chicken feed: dry mash for poultry
chicken feed: food for chickens; insignificant amount of money; small enterprise
chicken feed: If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed. I was making a million a year, but that's chicken feed in the pop business. = peanuts. A trifling amount of money. an amount of money that is so small that it is almost not worth having
chicken hawk: {i} any of the several hawks that prey on chickens, hen hawk; (Slang) person who has never served in the army but favors aggressive or warlike political policy to carry through a foreign policy; (Vulgar Slang) older man who searches for boys or young men as his sexual partners
chicken hawk: nontechnical term for any hawks said to prey on poultry
chicken head: (Slang) loose and immoral woman
chicken hearted: {s} (Slang) not brave; cowardly; missing courage; fearful
chicken kabob: pieces of chicken roasted on a skewer
chicken kiev: pounded chicken cutlets rolled around butter (that has been seasoned with herbs) and then covered with crumbs and fried
chicken leg: the lower joint of the leg of a chicken
chicken little: a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling
chicken liver: liver of a chicken used as meat
chicken louse: parasitic on poultry
chicken manure: chicken excreta used as fertilizer
chicken marengo: braised chicken with onions and mushrooms in a wine and tomato sauce
chicken mousse: mousse made with chicken
chicken nuggets: small pieces of chicken which have been breaded and cooked
chicken out: {f} (Slang) lose faith in oneself or courage to do something (as in "Tom was going to ask Diane out for a date, but he chickened out the last minute"); withdraw because of lack of courage or tiredness
chicken out: If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid. His mother complains that he makes excuses to chicken out of family occasions such as weddings I had never ridden on a motor-cycle before. But it was too late to chicken out
chicken out: remove oneself from an obligation; "He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved"
chicken out: remove oneself from an obligation; "He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved
chicken paprika: chicken simmered in broth with onions and paprika then mixed with sour cream
chicken pox: A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella
chicken pox: chick·en·pox an infectious illness which causes a slight fever and spots on your skin
chicken pox: type of disease characterized by red itchy blisters on the skin
chicken roundworm: intestinal parasite of domestic fowl
chicken run: An enclosed area in which chickens are allowed to walk and run about. an area surrounded by a fence where chickens are kept
chicken run: an enclosed yard for keeping poultry
chicken salad: salad composed primarily of chopped chicken meat
chicken sandwich: a sandwich made with a filling of sliced chicken
chicken scratch: illegible writing
chicken snake: large North American snake
chicken soup: soup made with poultry, warm liquid food made from boiling chicken meat in water
chicken soup: soup made from chicken broth
chicken steak: slice of meat from a chicken (intended for broiling or frying)
chicken stew: a stew made with chicken
chicken stock: a stock made with chicken
chicken taco: a taco with a chicken filling
chicken tetrazzini: prepared with mushrooms in a cream sauce served over pasta and topped with cheese
chicken wing: the wing of a chicken
chicken wire: Chicken wire is a type of thin wire netting. A light-gauge galvanized wire fencing usually made with hexagonal mesh. a type of thin wire net used to make fences for chickens (Because it is used for making a fence around an area where chickens are kept)
chicken wire: a galvanized wire network with a hexagonal mesh; used to build fences
chicken yard: an enclosed yard for keeping poultry
chicken's leg: leg of a chicken
chicken-fried steak: a thin piece of beef covered in breadcrumbs and cooked in hot fat
choke the chicken: To masturbate
choked the chicken: Simple past tense and past participle of choke the chicken
chokes the chicken: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of choke the chicken
choking the chicken: Present participle of choke the chicken
Mother Carey's chicken: The storm petrel
a chicken in every pot: suggestive of general welfare or prosperity
At least nowadays we have a chicken in every pot, and a car in every garage to boot!.
butter chicken: A mild curry in which marinaded chicken tikkas are cooked in butter with a makhani sauce
coronation chicken: Cold pre-cooked chicken meat in a creamy mayonnaise-based sauce with herbs and spices, used as a sandwich filling or in salads
no spring chicken: Said of a person who is no longer particularly young
He doubtless hoped for a sympathetic ruling from President Reagan, at 70 no spring chicken himself.
popcorn chicken: Small morsels of boneless chicken, battered and fried, resulting in little nuggets that resemble popcorn
prairie chicken: Either of two species of flightless bird of the genus Tympanuchus, native to the prairies of North America, the greater and lesser prairie chickens
rubber-chicken dinner: A formal dinner or event thrown by politicians to raise funds
run around like a chicken with its head cut off: To act in a haphazard or aimless way; frantically or without control
The president doesn't know what to do. He's running around like a headless chicken.
sage chicken: the sage grouse
spring chicken: A chicken for eating while it is still young
taste like chicken: Comically describes the taste of unique food, deriving humour from the idea that many exotic meats, from squab to rattlesnake, can taste like ordinary chicken
Yeah. It tastes like chicken.
tastes like chicken: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of taste like chicken
A chicken: chick
Chicken pox: varicella
chickened: past of chicken
chickening: present participle of chicken
chickens: plural of chicken
chickens: third-person singular of chicken

Turkish - English

Definition of chicken in Turkish English dictionary
piliç çevirme roast chicken, chicken roasted: on a spit

chicken

Hyphenation

chick·en

Turkish pronunciation

çîkın

Synonyms

cock, chook, hen, rooster, twink, spring chicken, coward, craven, dastard, funk, poltroon, quitter, recreant, scaredy cat, yellow belly

Pronunciation

/ˈʧəkən/ /ˈʧɪkən/

Etymology

() From Middle English, from Old English ċicen, cycen (“chicken”), diminuitive of coc, cocc (“cock, rooster”). Cognate with Dutch kuiken, kicken (“chick, chicken”), Low Saxon küken (“chicken”), German Küchlein (“chick”), German dialectal Küchen (“chicken”). More at cock, -en.