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A chick is a baby bird, especially a baby chicken. As slang, 'chick' is an old, casual word for a young woman — you'll hear it in older movies and songs, and some people still use it lightly among friends, but it can sound a little outdated or disrespectful today.
小雞;(較過時俚語)年輕女生
組成This is actually the older, shorter word — 'chicken' was built later by adding an ending onto 'chick,' not the other way around.
同家族的字
- chickenchicken was built by adding an ending onto the older word chick
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Chickname
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A surname.
chicknoun詞源 1/t͡ʃɪk/
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A young bird.
- Near-synonyms: nestling, fledgling
- Published in the Communications Earth & Environment journal, scientists conclude that due to sea ice loss last year, it is highly probable that no chicks had survived from four of the five known emperor penguin colonies in the central and eastern Bellingshausen Sea in Antarctica.
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A young bird.
- Neither chick nor child was left living the length of the seacoast.
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An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman.
- This chick's a machine but her friend is way more fun.
- They're going to have a chick weekend. No guys allowed.
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA friendly fighter aircraft.
- The Aldis lamp flashes at the underside of each aircraft. It shows that the gear is down. Diegal is relaxing. This is such low responsibility, easy night duty. All the “chicks” (fighter aircraft) are home to roost except one.
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datedA young child.
chickverb詞源 1/t͡ʃɪk/
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obsoleteTo sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
- plowing in his oats with a very feet furrow; and, after they have “chicked” but before they appear aboveground
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To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.
- He chicked his lips; he cracked his whip; he winked with a knowing leer; he ran down the alley and up the stair, then down the stair and up the alley
chicknoun詞源 2
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A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
- 1890, Rudyard Kipling, Letter to William Canton, 5 April, 1890, in Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.) Writings on writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 34, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-AQStA5QMjwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Then, through a cautiously lifted chick, the old scene stands revealed […]
- It is not uncommon at meal-time to see the table servants chasing the sparrows about the room, endeavouring to drive them out while some one holds up the "chick" or bamboo net which covers the doorway.
chicknoun詞源 3
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obsoleteA chickeen, or zecchino.
- Whenever master spends a chick I keep back two rupees, sir!
- "Can't do much harm by losing twenty chicks," observed the colonel, in Anglo-Indian argot, as the lot was knocked down to him; "and after all, there is a good deal of uncertainty about steeplechasing."
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。