chick

== English == === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /t͡ʃɪk/ Rhymes: -ɪk ==== Noun ==== chick (plural chicks or (obsolete) chicken) A young bird. Hypernyms: bird < animal < creature, critter Coordinate term: birdlet Near-synonyms: nestling, fledgling (especially) A young chicken. Hypernyms: chicken < poultry < bird < animal < creature, critter Coordinate terms: pullet, hen, cock, cockerel, rooster (colloquial) An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:girl, Thesaurus:woman (military, slang) A friendly fighter aircraft. (dated, endearing) A young child. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== ==== Verb ==== chick (third-person singular simple present chicks, present participle chicking, simple past and past participle chicked) (obsolete) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate. To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise. === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi चिक़ (ciq) / Urdu چق (ciq)), ultimately from Classical Persian چق (čiq). ==== Alternative forms ==== check, chik ==== Noun ==== chick (plural chicks) (India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows. 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, [2] Then, through a cautiously lifted chick, the old scene stands revealed […] ===== Synonyms ===== chick-blind ===== Derived terms ===== chicked === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== chick (plural chicks) (India, obsolete) A chickeen, or zecchino. 1863, H. Broughton, The Dawk Bungalow (page 9) Whenever master spends a chick I keep back two rupees, sir! 1876, George Tomkyns Chesney, The Dilemma (volume 1, page 132) "Can't do much harm by losing twenty chicks," observed the colonel, in Anglo-Indian argot, as the lot was knocked down to him; "and after all, there is a good deal of uncertainty about steeplechasing." ==== Further reading ==== Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “chick”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 193. == Yola == === Alternative forms === chicke === Etymology === From Middle English chike, from Old English ċicen. Cognate with English chick, and Scots schik. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /t͡ʃɪk/ === Noun === chick (plural chickès) chicken === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 30