Slang: Chicken!
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Are you a chicken? In this episode we look at a familiar word but show you how it can be used in another way. Most of you probably know that a chicken is a kind of bird. And you can also probably imagine a chicken dinner. There is another funny way that we use chicken in English. Check it out here…or are you a chicken?
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Harp: Yes, our Catchword today is chicken.
Maura: Which for many of you listening out there…I’m sure you are thinking, “I already know the word chicken. It’s an animal.” But we do use it in another way.
Harp: Exactly, there is slang use for chicken.
Maura: Exactly. So you already know the original meaning of the word, which is the animal, but in English sometimes we use chicken to describe a person who is very afraid of something.
Harp: Yeah, someone who is scared of things.
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02/1/2010 - 4:59 am
we use this word “chichen” in arabic like you.
02/1/2010 - 11:50 am
Hi everyone, in Italy is more common to call rabbit someone who is a coward and not courageous!
02/2/2010 - 12:59 am
In China?we call mouse to describe a person who is coward.
02/3/2010 - 12:50 pm
Haha! Thanks for sharing. That is so interesting that in many languages there is an animal that means coward.
In English we might say someone is as fast as a rabbit, so we mean that someone is very fast. We could also say that someone was as quiet as a mouse. It’s funny how different qualities are associated with different animals.
04/3/2010 - 12:11 pm
I like it.Thanks for improve my knowledge.
05/18/2010 - 8:18 pm
Hey! In France too, you use the word Poulet, which means chicken!
05/19/2010 - 4:16 pm
Hello Guys,
That exactly what i was looking for.
Thanks in advace,
Amr.
From Egypt.