name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
chick
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/t͡ʃɪk/
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rhymes with -ɪk
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CMU ARPABET: CH IH1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A young bird.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonyms: nestling, fledgling
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nestling, fledgling
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bird, animal, creature, critter
noun
Meaning 3
A young bird.
A young chicken.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nestling, fledgling
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bird, animal, creature, critter, chicken, poultry
noun
Meaning 4
An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
Examples
- This chick's a machine but her friend is way more fun.
- They're going to have a chick weekend. No guys allowed.
- He'll fall for any chick with a nice smile.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: babe, bint, bird, cake, chick, colleen, cutty, damoiselle, damsel, elrig, frail, gal, gel, girl, girlie, girly, grill, hottie, lass, lassie, little girl, maggie, maid, maid child, maiden, minoress, miss, missy, moggy, poppet, pucelle, puss, quean, tart, wan, wench, woman child, baggage, bim, bitch, blone, broad, covess, dame, donna, feme, femme, femoid, frau, frow, gash, gentlelady, ginch, hen, ho, huwoman, lady, maness, mort, mulier, placket, pussy, queen, she, sheila, skirt, squaw, thot, tía, twist, vaginoid, wife, woman, wommon, womon, womxn, womyn, wimmin
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A friendly fighter aircraft.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Meaning 6
A young child.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, endearing
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noun
Meaning 7
A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, Pakistan
Examples
- 1890, Rudyard Kipling, Letter to William Canton, 5 April, 1890, in Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.) Writings on writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 34, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-AQStA5QMjwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Then, through a cautiously lifted chick, the old scene stands revealed [...]
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
A chickeen, or zecchino.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, obsolete
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.
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noun
Meaning 11
young bird especially of domestic fowl
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: biddy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: young bird, chicken, Gallus gallus
noun
Meaning 12
informal terms for a (young) woman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dame, doll, wench, skirt, bird
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille
History
Etymology
From Middle English chicke, chike, variation of chiken (“chicken", also "chick”), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”). Sense of "young woman" dates to at least 1860 (compare chit (“young, pert woman”)). More at chicken.
Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi चिक़ (ciq) / Urdu چق (ciq)), ultimately from Classical Persian چق (čiq).
Across languages
Translations
316 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: zogth — young bird
- Arabic: فَرْخ (farḵ) — young bird
- Arabic: رَأْل (raʔl) — young bird
- Arabic: كتكوت (katkūt) — young bird
- Armenian: ճուտ (čut) — young bird
- Aromanian: pulj — young bird
- Aromanian: puljiu — young bird
- Aromanian: pulju — young bird
- Asturian: pollu — young bird
- Asturian: pitu — young bird
- Asturian: pitín — young bird
- Azerbaijani: cücə — young bird
- Bashkir: бала (bala) — young bird
- Bashkir: себеш (sebeş) — young bird
- Belarusian: птушаня́ (ptušanjá) — young bird
- Belarusian: птушанё (ptušanjó) — young bird
- Central Bikol: siwo — young bird
- Bulgarian: пи́ленце (pílence) — young bird
- Bulgarian: пи́ле (píle) — young bird
- Chinese Mandarin: 雛鳥 /雏鸟 (chúniǎo) — young bird
- Chinese Mandarin: 小雛兒 /小雏儿 (xiǎochúr) — young bird
- West Circassian: кӏэтжъый (kʼɛtẑəj) — young bird
- Czech: kuře — young bird
- Czech: ptáče — young bird
- Danish: fugleunge — young bird
- Danish: ungfugl — young bird
- Dutch: kuiken — young bird
- Esperanto: birdido — young bird
- Finnish: linnunpoika — young bird
- Finnish: linnunpoikanen — young bird
- Finnish: untuvikko — young bird
- French: oisillon — young bird
- Galician: pito — young bird
- Galician: polo — young bird
- Galician: piouco — young bird
- Georgian: ბარტყი (barṭq̇i) — young bird
- German: Küken — young bird
- German: Vogeljunges — young bird
- German: Jungvogel — young bird
- Greek: νεοσσός (neossós) — young bird
- Greek: νεαρό πουλί (nearó poulí) — young bird
- Greek: πουλάκι (pouláki) — young bird
- Ancient Greek: νεοσσός (neossós) — young bird
- Hebrew: אֶפְרוֹחַ (efróaḥ) — young bird
- Hebrew: גּוֹזָל (gozál) — young bird
- Hungarian: kismadár — young bird
- Hungarian: fióka — young bird
- Ido: ucelyuno — young bird
- Italian: pulcino — young bird
- Japanese: 雛 (hina) — young bird
- Kazakh: балапан (balapan) — young bird
- Korean: 새끼새 (saekkisae) — young bird
- Kumyk: жюжек (jüjek) — young bird
- Kumyk: жижек (jijek) — young bird
- Kumyk: чӀикӀа — young bird
- Kumyk: жига (jiga) — young bird
- Central Kurdish: جوجْک (cucik) — young bird
- Kyrgyz: балапан (balapan) — young bird
- Latgalian: cuoļs — young bird
- Latin: pullus — young bird
- Latvian: cālis — young bird
- Latvian: cālēns — young bird
- Lithuanian: paukščiukas — young bird
- Macedonian: пиле (pile) — young bird
- Malay: anak burung — young bird
- Maltese: ferħ — young bird
- Maltese: ferħa — young bird
- Maranao: piyak — young bird
- Mi'kmaq: go'qoli'gweji'j — young bird
- Khiamniungan Naga: vēutshòu — young bird
- Norwegian: fugleunge — young bird
- Norwegian Bokmål: fugleunge — young bird
- Norwegian Bokmål: kylling — young bird
- Occitan: poleton — young bird
- Old English: bridd — young bird
- Persian: جوجه (juje) — young bird
- Polish: pisklę — young bird
- Portuguese: filhote de ave — young bird
- Quechua: ciuci — young bird
- Quechua: chillwi — young bird
- Romanian: pui — young bird
- Russian: птене́ц (ptenéc) — young bird
- Scottish Gaelic: isean — young bird
- Scottish Gaelic: eireag — young bird
- Scottish Gaelic: bigean — young bird
- Scottish Gaelic: pùdach — young bird
- Serbo-Croatian: птић — young bird
- Serbo-Croatian: птиче — young bird
- Serbo-Croatian: птичица — young bird
- Serbo-Croatian: пиле — young bird
- Serbo-Croatian: потркушац — young bird
- Serbo-Croatian: чучавац — young bird
- Serbo-Croatian: ptić — young bird
- Serbo-Croatian: ptiče — young bird
- Serbo-Croatian: ptičica — young bird
- Serbo-Croatian: pile — young bird
- Serbo-Croatian: potrkušac — young bird
- Serbo-Croatian: čučavac — young bird
- Sicilian: puḍḍicinu — young bird
- Sicilian: aciḍḍuzzu — young bird
- Sicilian: uciḍḍuzzu — young bird
- Slovak: vtáča — young bird
- Slovak: vtáčatko — young bird
- Slovene: ptičji mladič — young bird
- Spanish: polluelo — young bird
- Spanish: pollo — young bird
- Spanish: pichón — young bird
- Swahili: kinda — young bird
- Swedish: fågelunge — young bird
- Tagalog: sisiw — young bird
- Tajik: чӯҷа (čüja) — young bird
- Tamil: குஞ்சு (kuñcu) — young bird
- Tày: cáy nuồm — young bird
- Ukrainian: пташеня́ (ptašenjá) — young bird
- Ukrainian: пташа́ (ptašá) — young bird
- Uzbek: joʻja — young bird
- Volapük: bödül — young bird
- Walloon: djonne — young bird
- Zazaki: leyr (diq) — young bird
- Zazaki: leyrek — young bird
- Zazaki: cure (diq) — young bird
- Dupaningan Agta: piyak — young chicken
- Albanian: zog pule — young chicken
- Albanian: kukuvriq — young chicken
- Arabic: صُوص (ṣūṣ) — young chicken
- Arabic: فَرُّوج (farrūj) — young chicken
- Arabic: كتكوت (katkūt) — young chicken
- Arabic: كتكوت (katkūt) — young chicken
- Arabic: كتكوت (katkūt) — young chicken
- Arabic: صُوص (ṣūṣ) — young chicken
- Arabic: فلوس (fallūs) — young chicken
- Armenian: ճուտ (čut) — young chicken
- Asturian: pitín — young chicken
- Balinese: pitik — young chicken
- Bashkir: себеш (sebeş) — young chicken
- Basque: txita — young chicken
- Belarusian: кураня́ (kuranjá) — young chicken
- Belarusian: куранё (kuranjó) — young chicken
- Bulgarian: пиле (pile) — young chicken
- Burmese: ကြက်ကလေး (krakka.le:) — young chicken
- Catalan: pollet — young chicken
- Catalan: butza (quan encara no té plomes) — young chicken
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵛⵉⵛⴰⵡ (acicaw) — young chicken
- Chinese Mandarin: 雛 /雏 (chú) — young chicken
- Chinese Mandarin: 小雞 /小鸡 (xiǎojī) — young chicken
- Czech: kuře — young chicken
- Danish: kylling — young chicken
- Central Dusun: piak — young chicken
- Dutch: kuiken — young chicken
- Esperanto: kokido — young chicken
- Estonian: kanapoeg — young chicken
- Finnish: kananpoika — young chicken
- Finnish: tipu — young chicken
- French: poussin — young chicken
- Friulian: poleç — young chicken
- Galician: frango — young chicken
- Galician: piouco — young chicken
- Galician: poliño — young chicken
- Galician: policho — young chicken
- Galician: pito — young chicken
- Galician: pitiño — young chicken
- Georgian: წიწილა (c̣ic̣ila) — young chicken
- Georgian: ბარტყი (barṭq̇i) — young chicken
- German: Küken — young chicken
- German: Biberl — young chicken
- German: Kücken — young chicken
- German: Hinkel — young chicken
- German: Hühnchen — young chicken
- German: Küchlein — young chicken
- German: Küklein — young chicken
- Greek: κοτοπουλάκι (kotopouláki) — young chicken
- Greek: κλωσσοπουλάκι (klossopouláki) — young chicken
- Greek: κλωσσόπουλο (klossópoulo) — young chicken
- Hawaiian: piopio — young chicken
- Hebrew: אֶפְרוֹחַ m or פַּרְגִּית ('efróak) — young chicken
- Hindi: चूज़ा (cūzā) — young chicken
- Hungarian: csibe — young chicken
- Hungarian: naposcsibe — young chicken
- Hungarian: kiscsibe — young chicken
- Hungarian: kiscsirke — young chicken
- Hungarian: pipi — young chicken
- Ido: hanyuno — young chicken
- Indonesian: anak ayam — young chicken
- Ingrian: tipu — young chicken
- Ingrian: puippu — young chicken
- Italian: pulcino — young chicken
- Japanese: 雛 (hiyoko) — young chicken
- Javanese: kuthuk — young chicken
- Korean: 병아리 (byeong'ari) — young chicken
- Latgalian: cuoļs — young chicken
- Latvian: cālis — young chicken
- Latvian: cālēns — young chicken
- Lithuanian: viščiukas — young chicken
- Low German: Küken — young chicken
- Macedonian: пиле (pile) — young chicken
- Macedonian: коковче (kokovče) — young chicken
- Malay: anak ayam — young chicken
- Maltese: fellus — young chicken
- Manchu: ᡧᠣᡵᡥᠣ (šorho) — young chicken
- Mazanderani: چینکا (činekâ) — young chicken
- Mongolian: цурваг (curvag) — young chicken
- Khiamniungan Naga: vēutshòu — young chicken
- Navajo: naaʼahóóhai biyázhí — young chicken
- Norwegian: kylling — young chicken
- Norwegian Bokmål: kylling — young chicken
- Persian: جوجه (juje) — young chicken
- Polish: kurczak — young chicken
- Polish: kurczątko — young chicken
- Portuguese: pintinho — young chicken
- Portuguese: pintainho — young chicken
- Portuguese: pinto — young chicken
- Quechua: ciuci — young chicken
- Romanian: pui — young chicken
- Russian: цыплёнок (cypljónok) — young chicken
- Scottish Gaelic: isean — young chicken
- Scottish Gaelic: eireag — young chicken
- Serbo-Croatian: пиле — young chicken
- Serbo-Croatian: пилић — young chicken
- Serbo-Croatian: пиленцe — young chicken
- Serbo-Croatian: pile — young chicken
- Serbo-Croatian: pilić — young chicken
- Serbo-Croatian: pilence — young chicken
- Sicilian: puḍḍicinu — young chicken
- Slovak: kurča — young chicken
- Slovene: pišče — young chicken
- Southern Altai: куштыҥ балазы (kuštïŋ balazï) — young chicken
- Spanish: pollito — young chicken
- Sundanese: ciak — young chicken
- Sundanese: pitik — young chicken
- Swahili: kifaranga — young chicken
- Tamil: கோழிக்குஞ்சு (kōḻikkuñcu) — young chicken
- Tashelhit: afullus — young chicken
- Tashelhit: akiyyaw — young chicken
- Tashelhit: acicaw — young chicken
- Tashelhit: akzaw — young chicken
- Telugu: కోడి పిల్ల (kōḍi pilla) — young chicken
- Turkish: civciv — young chicken
- Ukrainian: курча́ (kurčá) — young chicken
- Ukrainian: курча́тко (kurčátko) — young chicken
- Uzbek: jo’ja — young chicken
- Volapük: gokül — young chicken
- Walloon: poyon — young chicken
- Welsh: cyw — young chicken
- Wolof: cuuj bi — young chicken
- Zazaki: varing — young chicken
- Zazaki: dikleyr — young chicken
- Arabic: فَتَاة (fatāh) — young woman
- Arabic: مزة (mozza) — young woman
- Arabic: موزة (mozza) — young woman
- Arabic: موزا (mozza) — young woman
- Armenian: ծիտ (cit) — young woman
- Armenian: նանար (nanar) — young woman
- Azerbaijani: civi — young woman
- Bulgarian: ма́цка (mácka) — young woman
- Burmese: မြာ (mra) — young woman
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵛⵉⵛⴰⵡⵜ (tacicawt) — young woman
- Chinese Mandarin: 小丫头 — young woman
- Czech: kočka — young woman
- Danish: pigebarn — young woman
- Danish: sild — young woman
- Dutch: griet — young woman
- Dutch: stoot — young woman
- Esperanto: ulino — young woman
- Finnish: tipu — young woman
- Finnish: typykkä — young woman
- Finnish: tytsy — young woman
- French: gonzesse — young woman
- French: nana — young woman
- Galician: rapariga — young woman
- Galician: nena — young woman
- Galician: garela — young woman
- Galician: cachopa — young woman
- Galician: lisgaira — young woman
- Galician: peringaia — young woman
- Galician: moza — young woman
- German: Schnecke — young woman
- German: Tussi — young woman
- Greek: γκόμενα (gkómena) — young woman
- Hebrew: פרגית (pargith) — young woman
- Hebrew: צ׳וּצָ׳ה (chúcha) — young woman
- Hungarian: pipi — young woman
- Hungarian: csaj — young woman
- Hungarian: nőci — young woman
- Italian: pollastra — young woman
- Italian: gnocca — young woman
- Maltese: ċiċċa — young woman
- Norwegian: +40 yrs: rype — young woman
- Norwegian: 20 - 40 yrs: dame — young woman
- Norwegian: <20: spa kæbe — young woman
- Polish: laska — young woman
- Portuguese: franguinha — young woman
- Portuguese: garota — young woman
- Romanian: gagică — young woman
- Romanian: tipă — young woman
- Russian: де́вушка (dévuška) — young woman
- Russian: тёлочка (tjóločka) — young woman
- Russian: девчо́нка (devčónka) — young woman
- Russian: цы́почка (cýpočka) — young woman
- Russian: чуви́ха (čuvíxa) — young woman
- Serbo-Croatian: кока — young woman
- Serbo-Croatian: koka — young woman
- Sicilian: caruseḍḍa — young woman
- Sicilian: carusitta — young woman
- Sicilian: papareḍḍa — young woman
- Spanish: chica — young woman
- Spanish: muchacha — young woman
- Swedish: tjej — young woman
- Swedish: brud — young woman
- Telugu: కోడి పిల్ల (kōḍi pilla) — young woman
- Turkish: hatun — young woman
- Turkish: piliç — young woman
- Turkish: fıstık — young woman
- Turkish: keklik — young woman
- Walloon: poyon — young woman
- Walloon: poyete — young woman
- Zazaki: varing — young woman
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