Snake vs. Chicken

Snakenoun

A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

Chickennoun

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

Snakenoun

A treacherous person.

Chickennoun

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

Snakenoun

A tool for unclogging plumbing.

Chickennoun

A coward.

Snakenoun

A tool to aid cable pulling.

Chickennoun

A young or inexperienced person.

Snakenoun

(slang) trouser snake; the penis

Chickennoun

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

Snakenoun

(maths) A series of Bézier curves

Chickennoun

The game of dare.

Snakenoun

(cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.

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.’;

Snakeverb

(intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.

‘The path snaked through the forest.’; ‘The river snakes through the valley.’;

Chickennoun

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

Snakeverb

To steal slyly.

‘He snaked my DVD!’;

Chickenadjective

(informal) Cowardly.

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

Snakeverb

(transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.

Chickenverb

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

Snakeverb

To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

Chickennoun

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

Snakeverb

(nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.

Chickennoun

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

Snakenoun

Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.

Chickennoun

the flesh of a chicken used for food

Snakeverb

To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; - often with out.

Chickennoun

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

Snakeverb

To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.

Chickennoun

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

Snakeverb

To crawl like a snake.

Chickennoun

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

Snakenoun

limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

Chickenadjective

easily frightened

Snakenoun

a deceitful or treacherous person

Chickennoun

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

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

Snakenoun

a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Chickennoun

meat from a chicken

‘roast chicken’;

Snakenoun

a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

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’;

Snakenoun

something resembling a snake

Chickennoun

a coward.

Snakeverb

move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake

Chickenadjective

cowardly

‘I was too chicken to go to court’;

Snakeverb

form a snake-like pattern;

‘The river snakes through the valley’;

Chickenverb

withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve

‘the referee chickened out of giving a penalty’;

Snakeverb

move along a winding path;

‘The army snaked through the jungle’;

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.

Snake

Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales.