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

ニワトリ(→ cock, hen, rooster, chick); 若鶏, ひよこ

meat from a chicken:

鶏肉, チキン (!ニワトリと見てわかる形ならC)

e.g. roast chicken.

2. informal a game in which the first person to lose nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser.

(子供の遊びの)肝だめし; 我慢くらべ, 脅し合い

a coward.

｟くだけて｠ 臆病者, いくじなし(coward)

3. informal (among homosexuals) an adolescent male.

若者

adjective predicative informal

cowardly:

｟くだけて｠ ; 〖be ～〗 臆病で(cowardly)

e.g. they were too chicken to follow the murderers into the mountains.

verb no object (chicken out) informal

withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve:

｟くだけて｠ 〈人などが〉おじけづいて «…(すること)を» やめる(out) «of (doing)» ; «…に対して» 尻込みする «on»

e.g. the referee chickened out of giving a penalty.

see count1.

Old English cīcen, cȳcen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kieken and German Küchlein, and probably also to cock1.