Chicken vs. Hummingbird

Chickennoun

(countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.

Hummingbirdnoun

Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.

Chickennoun

(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.

Hummingbirdnoun

any bird of the family Trochilidæ, of which over one hundred genera are known, including about four hundred species. They are found only in America and are most abundant in the tropics. They are mostly of very small size with long slender bills adapted to sucking nectar from flowers, and are noted for the very brilliant iridescent colors of their plumage and their peculiar habit of hovering about flowers while vibrating their wings very rapidly with a humming noise; the wings are specialized for hovering flight, but they can also dart forward and fly quite rapidly. They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects. The common humming bird or ruby-throat of the Eastern United States is Trochilus colubris. Several other species are found in the Western United States. See Calliope, and Ruby-throat.

Chickennoun

A coward.

Hummingbirdnoun

tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight

Chickennoun

A young or inexperienced person.

Hummingbird

Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 360 species, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species is found in the tropics.

Chickennoun

A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.

Chickennoun

The game of dare.

Chickennoun

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 chicken (that is, the loser.)

‘Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.’;

Chickennoun

A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.

Chickenadjective

(informal) Cowardly.

‘Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.’;

Chickenverb

(intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

Chickennoun

A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

Chickennoun

A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken.

Chickennoun

the flesh of a chicken used for food

Chickennoun

a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

Chickennoun

a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

Chickennoun

a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

Chickenadjective

easily frightened

Chickennoun

a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one

‘rationing was still in force and most people kept chickens’;

Chickennoun

meat from a chicken

‘roast chicken’;

Chickennoun

a game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser

‘he was killed by a car after he lay in the road playing chicken’;

Chickennoun

a coward.

Chickenadjective

cowardly

‘I was too chicken to go to court’;

Chickenverb

withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve

‘the referee chickened out of giving a penalty’;

Chicken

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), a subspecies of the red junglefowl, is a type of domesticated fowl, originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult male bird, and younger male may be called a cockerel.