chick

noungirl

Synonyms for chick

noun girl

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., shortening of chicken (n.), extended to human offspring (often in alliterative pairing chick and child) and thence used as a term of endearment. As slang for "young woman" it is first recorded 1927 (in "Elmer Gantry"), supposedly from U.S. black slang. In British use in this sense by c.1940; popularized by Beatniks late 1950s. Chicken in this sense is from 1711. Sometimes c.1600-1900 chicken was taken as a plural, chick as a singular (cf. child/children) for the domestic fowl.

Example Sentences for chick

This is all of the egg which thus far represents the chick itself.

As yet, we have seen no arrangement for furnishing air to the chick.

They never stopped long where there were houses; they had no wife, no chick, no home, never a chum.

If we say the chick is unintelligent, we must certainly say the infant is unintelligent.

I expressed to him my surprise that he should fuss about me like an old hen over a chick.

Belle dropped the chick into her hat and tucked the hat under her arm.

You see, chick, I don't even know yet what it is I'm going to have to think about.

One of them, Fabricius, made observations on the development of the chick .

We'll watch over you like a couple of old hens with one chick between them.

We now say that the chick "knows" that the worm is not good to eat.

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Synonyms for chick

baby

broad

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children

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Synonyms for chick

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