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1. The flesh of a chicken used for food
   - poulet, volaille
    
2. A domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
   - Gallus gallus, chook [Austral, NZ]
    
3. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
   - wimp, crybaby, candy-ass [N. Amer]
    
4. A foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

1. Easily frightened
   "Come back here, you couple of chicken-livered cowards";
   - chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied, chicken-livered

1. Be too scared to do something
   - chicken out

Derived forms: chickening, chickens, chickened

See also: cowardly, fearful

Type of: competition, contest, domestic fowl, doormat, fowl, poultry, weakling, weed [UK], wet [UK], wuss, wussy

Encyclopedia: Chicken, AK Chicken Chicken, Vulture, Crow Chicken, Alaska