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Added 8 October 2026

chick

/t͡ʃɪk/ noun

In Latin: pullus Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about chick at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A young bird.
A young chicken.
An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman.
This chick's a machine but her friend is way more fun.

verb

To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.

noun

A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.

noun

A chickeen, or zecchino.

Origin

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.

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