Chicken vs. Rooster — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Chicken and Rooster
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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.
Rooster
An adult male chicken.
Chicken
A domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one
Rationing was still in force and most people kept chickens
Rooster
An adult male of certain other birds.
Chicken
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
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Rooster
A person regarded as cocky or pugnacious.
Chicken
Cowardly
I was too chicken to go to court
Rooster
A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
Chicken
Withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve
The referee chickened out of giving a penalty
Rooster
A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
Chicken
A common domesticated fowl (Gallus domesticus) widely raised for meat and eggs and believed to be descended from the jungle fowl G. gallus.
Rooster
An informer.
Chicken
Any of various similar or related birds.
Rooster
A violent or disorderly person.
Chicken
The flesh of the chicken, used as food.
Rooster
(figuratively) A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
Chicken
(Slang) A coward.
Rooster
A man.
Chicken
Any of various foolhardy competitions in which the participants persist in a dangerous course of action until one loses nerve and stops.
Rooster
A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
Chicken
Vulgar Slang A young gay male, especially as sought by an older man.
Rooster
Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.
Chicken
Afraid; cowardly.
Rooster
The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
Nor, when they [the Skinners and Cow Boys] wrung the neck of a rooster, did they trouble their heads whether he crowed for Congress or King George.
Chicken
To act in a cowardly manner; lose one's nerve
Chickened out at the last moment.
Rooster
Adult male chicken
Chicken
(countable) A domesticated species of junglefowl (usually, Gallus gallus; sometimes, Gallus gallus domesticus or Gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.
Chicken
(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
Chicken
(archaic) The young of any bird; a chick.
Chicken
A coward.
Chicken
A young or inexperienced person.
Chicken
A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
Chicken
The game of dare.
Chicken
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.
Chicken
A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
Chicken
A kilogram of cocaine.
Chicken
Plural of chick
Chicken
(informal) Cowardly.
Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.
Chicken
(intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
Chicken
A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
Chicken
A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken.
Chicken
The flesh of a chicken used for food
Chicken
A domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
Chicken
A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
Chicken
A foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
Chicken
Easily frightened
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