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 I.  noun 
 Etymology: Middle English chiken, from Old English cicen young chicken; akin to Old English cocc cock
 Date: 14th century
 
 
 1. the common domestic fowl ( Gallus gallus ) especially when young, any of various birds or their young, a young woman, 
 
 3.  coward  , any of various contests in which the participants risk personal safety in order to see which one will give up first, petty details, a young male homosexual, 
 
 II.  adjective 
 Date: 1941
 
 
 1.  scared  ,  timid  ,  cowardly  , 
 
 2. slang insistent on petty details of duty or discipline,  petty  , unimportant, 
 
 III. intransitive  verb (chickened; chickening)
 Date: 1943
 to lose one's nerve

 chicken colonel 
  noun 
 Etymology: from the eagle serving as insignia of the rank
 Date: 1918
  colonel  1a

 chicken feed 
  noun 
 Date: 1836
 a paltry sum (as in profits or wages)

 chicken hawk 
  noun 
 Date: 1827
 a hawk that preys or is believed to prey on chickens, a man who pursues boys or young men for sexual purposes

 chicken little 
  noun 
 Etymology: from the fable in which a chick attempts to warn other barnyard animals that the sky is falling after she is struck on the head by a chance falling object
 Date: 1895
 one who warns of or predicts calamity especially without justification

 chicken pox 
  noun 
 Date: 1619
 an acute contagious disease especially of children marked by low-grade fever and formation of vesicles and caused by a herpesvirus (species  Human herpesvirus 3 of the genus  Varicellovirus )

 chicken snake 
  noun 
 Date: 1709
  rat snake  

 chicken wire 
  noun 
 Etymology: from its use for making enclosures for chickens
 Date: circa 1904
 a light galvanized wire netting of hexagonal mesh