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Pretty young miss
Answer for the clue "Pretty young miss ", 5 letters:
chick
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Word definitions for chick in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A young bird. 2 A young chicken. 3 (context slang English) (rft-sense) A woman (especially one who is young and/or attractive). vb. (context obsolete English) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chick \Chick\ (ch[i^]k), v. i. [OE. chykkyn, chyke, chicken.] To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate. --Chalmers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chick is a 1936 British comedy crime film directed by Michael Hankinson and starring Sydney Howard , Betty Ann Davies and Fred Conyngham . It is based on the 1923 novel of the same title by Edgar Wallace , which had previously been made into a 1928 silent ...
Usage examples of chick.
I recently contacted a Japanese biochemist, asking him to supply me with a small sample of a substance to test for possible amnestic effect in the chicks.
I saw the gigantic forms of my two great auks, followed by their chicks, blundering past in a shower of spray, driving headlong out into the ocean.
Some were so far into the part that they sported long lank hair and beards, or black and white existentialist makeupwhat was the name of the chick who started the whole thing?
Foreigners mostly, some fanciable chicks, could be a good pick-up joint.
If we had about six jars of beans sprouting then we could rotate them and have something different every day: things like mung beans, aduki beans, fenugreek and chick peas.
The chicks were still flightless, their wing membranes yet to develop.
Bullock, S, Rose, S P R, and Zamani, R Characterisation and regional localisation of pre- and postsynaptic glycoproteins of the chick forebrain showing changed fucose incorporation following passive avoidance training.
Rose, S P R, and Jork, R Long-term memory formation in chick is blocked by 2-deoxygalactose, a fucose analogue.
Burchuladze, R and Rose, S P R Memory formation in day-old chicks requires NMDA but not non-NMDA glutamate receptors, in press, 1992.
If you want my considered opinion, this chick had no kind of future in the gogo business.
There were no chicks, and no sign of the cock, the King, Heleth had called him.
Rose, S P R, and Csillag, A Passive avoidance training results in lasting changes in deoxyglucose metabolism in left hemispheric regions of chick brain.
Henrietta Hen seen so many hens and roosters and chicks as she found on every side of her, at the fair.
Sam reports the total hatch for the year as 1917 chicks, out of which number he had, when he separated them in the early autumn, 678 pullets to put in the runs for laying hens, and 653 cockerels to go to the fattening pens.
Charles Fifield and Charly Batcheldor and Chick Randall and Jimmy Josie jest putting it for the ingine house, and Beany said buly they is a fire, and we begun to ring the bell as hard as we cood and holler fire.