Palavra Inglês do Dia

chicken

galinha

Definições

inglês > português

chicken

1. Substantivo. frango, galinha

inglês > inglês

chicken

1. n. A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.

2. n. The meat from this bird eaten as food.

3. n. (slang) A coward.

4. n. (slang) A young or inexperienced person.

5. n. (Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.

6. n. The game of dare.

7. n. 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. n. 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. n. (UK dialectal or obsolete) plural of chick

português > inglês

galinha

1. n-f. hen

2. n-f. chicken (meat)

3. n-f. (Brazil, slang) a person (especially a woman) who is almost never single

4. adj. (Brazil, of a woman) who is virtually always seen with a partner

Pronúncia

Exemplos

How can you get a chicken bone out of your throat?
    Como tirar um osso de galinha da garganta?
Your chicken soup is great.
    A sua sopa de galinha é ótima.
Most people like chicken.
    A maioria das pessoas gosta de frango.
That chicken hasn't laid any eggs lately.
    Essa galinha não tem posto ovos ultimamente.
Chicken meat is white, whereas that of an ox is red.
    A carne de frango é branca, enquanto que a de boi é vermelha.

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