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   chicken

   /ˈtʃɪk(ɪ)n/

   noun

   • 1. a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one: "rationing was still in force and most people kept chickens"
   • ▪ meat from a chicken: "roast chicken"
   • 2. a cowardly person; a coward. informal, derogatory
   • ▪ a game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser: "he lay in the road playing chicken"

   adjective

   • 1. cowardly: informal "I was too chicken to go to court"

   verb

   • 1. withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve: informal "the referee chickened out of giving a penalty"

   Word Origin Old Englishcīcen, cȳcen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kieken and German Küchlein, and probably also to cock1.

   Scrabble Points: 18

   • C

     3

   • H

     4

   • I

     1

   • C

     3

   • K

     5

   • E

     1

   • N

     1

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