chicken
/ˈt͡ʃɪkɪn/ adjective C2- Cowardly. · Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.
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Bennet had no more to say; and Lady Lucas, who had been long yawning at the repetition of delights which she saw no likelihood of sharing, was left to the comforts of cold ham and chicken.
“It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken.”
Diana found it out in the woods behind their chicken house.
Josie Pye and Julia Bell did not “speak” for three months, because Josie Pye had told Bessie Wright that Julia Bell’s bow when she got up to recite made her think of a chicken jerking its head, and Bessie told Julia.
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