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chicken

Huhn

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Englisch > Deutsch
chicken
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] Huhn
3. [2] Hähnchen
4. [3] umgangssprachlich: Feigling
[1] I have five chickens.
Ich habe fünf Hühner.
[2] I would like to have two chickens.
Ich würde gerne zwei Hähnchen haben.
[3] You are a chicken!
Du bist ein Feigling!
Englisch > Englisch
chicken
1. subst. A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.
2. subst. The meat from this bird eaten as food.
3. subst. (slang) A coward.
4. subst. (slang) A young or inexperienced person.
5. subst. (Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
6. subst. The game of dare.
7. subst. A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid col
Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
8. subst. A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
9. adj. (informal) Cowardly.
Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.
10. v. (intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
11. subst. (UK dialectal or obsolete) plural of chick
Deutsch > Englisch
Huhn
1. subst. hen
Mein Huhn hat schon Eier gelegt. - My hen has already laid eggs.
2. subst. (chiefly in the plural also) chicken