Chicken
Chicken , noun
[Anglo-Saxon cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock; akin to LG. kiken, kuken, Dutch Kieken, kuiken, German kuchkein. See Cock the animal.]
1.
A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
2.
A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken.
Stella is no chicken.
Collocations (1)
Chicken cholera , a contagious disease of fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.