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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chicken
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
broiler chicken
chicken feed
▪ The bank offered to lend us £1,000 but that’s chicken feed compared to what we need.
chicken flu
chicken pox
chicken run
chicken wire
chicken/beef/vegetable etc curry
▪ I think I’ll have a chicken curry.
chicken/tomato etc soup
▪ We both had chicken soup.
rubber chicken circuit
▪ She is in demand on the rubber chicken circuit.
running around like headless chickens (=trying to do a lot of things, in an anxious or disorganized way)
▪ We were all running around like headless chickens.
spring chicken
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cold
▪ She filled it from the larder and the fridge. Cold chicken.
▪ There's cold chicken and salad in the fridge.
fried
▪ There was a fried chicken place open on Baker Street, about the only thing that was.
▪ He hoped she would choose a hamburger or fried chicken, anything which would be fast and convenient.
▪ At each meal she willingly cleaned her plate, eating ice cream and fried chicken until she felt bloated.
grilled
▪ Accompaniments: grilled fish, chicken, lamb or veal with a cucumber and chive salad.
▪ A sandwich of grilled chicken, red bell peppers and melted white cheddar on baguette is gilded with a garlic aioli.
▪ She drank iced water and nibbled a prawn apple and celery salad followed by grilled chicken with orange and rosemary.
▪ For grilled chicken, as with other grilled poultry, almost invariably I choose a red.
▪ There is plenty of ice-cold beer, soft drinks and grilled chicken sandwiches.
▪ Sometimes that involves merely adding grilled chicken or shrimp to the salad.
▪ This sauce goes well with kebabs and with grilled or baked chicken.
▪ From the salad to the clam chowder to the pasta with grilled peppers and chicken, dinner was perfect.
headless
▪ Strandli was a headless chicken but went close once.
▪ The Quay at Devizes is quite a bustle, the headless chickens are definitely in on the act here.
▪ The arcade section is hideous, featuring computer-controlled players running around like headless chickens and never attempting a tackle.
▪ Witness last October's petrol-price protests, when ministers rushed around like headless chickens because the boss was ill in hospital.
▪ She continued to twitch like a headless chicken long after she was dead. 0019.
roast
▪ They had a three-course roast chicken meal after the visit ended, he explained.
▪ Even something as prosaic as a roast chicken Jasper could transform into something nearly lyrical.
▪ For dinner we're having a roast chicken.
▪ A roast chicken followed, with pale stuffing, a hot gravy and masses of floury roast potatoes.
▪ The table was laid, and a roast chicken lay waiting for him to carve.
whole
▪ Before that, though, I opened a can of whole chicken and ripped off a leg dribbling with jelly.
▪ Using whole chicken or bones is a matter of personal preference.
▪ Even though it's compact the cavity is spacious, taking a whole chicken or a large casserole.
▪ Compare the prices of whole and cut-up chickens, you can usually save pennies by cutting up whole birds.
▪ A hot chicken take away counter offering freshly cooked drumsticks, thighs and whole cooked chickens was introduced at Merton.
▪ Properly priced, chicken parts are as good buys as whole chickens.
▪ Sprinkle over whole chicken or fish before cooking or add to minced pork to make meatballs.
■ NOUN
bone
▪ Grabbing fruitlessly at bulrush stalks, which snap like chicken bones, he crashes face down into the mud.
▪ She looked frail, her finger like a chicken bone inside my hand.
▪ False words are like chicken bones.
▪ Besides the chicken bones, the pot will need onions, carrots and celery.
▪ The cross-eyed com-poser was once again gnawing on a chicken bone, with a noodle dangling from his black beard.
broth
▪ She had brought a bowl of hot chicken broth, freshly baked white manchet loaves and a tankard of watered ale.
▪ Add the tomatoes and their liquid, the chicken broth, green chilies, paprika, cayenne and cumin.
▪ Add the remaining lemon juice to the chicken broth in a saucepan and bring to the boil.
▪ Add wine, chicken broth and 2 cups water.
▪ Gradually stir in chicken broth and bring to a boil, stirring.
▪ Stir in the chicken broth and cream and bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
▪ Add the remaining chicken broth all at once and whisk until well blended.
▪ Meanwhile, bring the chicken broth to a simmer in a large pot.
coop
▪ Kalchu went to the chicken coop and lifted the hatch.
▪ The night came down around us, and it was dark by the time we reached the chicken coop.
▪ One burned the chicken coop to the ground.
▪ She walked round and lifted one of the slats from the roof of the lean-to chicken coop.
▪ When the men were building a new chicken coop, she would go out and help in whatever way she could.
▪ Apparently it's £50K on the table, £30K in the shower and £75K in the chicken coop...
▪ He would go out and wander over to the chicken coop.
egg
▪ He also opened fertile chicken eggs and concluded, falsely, that the heart was the first organ to develop.
▪ Now direct experimental evidence has proved the assumption justified, at least when the prey are nauseous chicken eggs and the predators crows.
feed
▪ Today, the cheapest chicken feed consists of fishmeal, chicken feathers and chicken innards.
▪ Most of the capital gains reported by these under-$ 50, 000 taxpayers were chicken feed.
leg
▪ Enough to make the room swim, send the beer flat and the chicken legs glutinous.
▪ Ask an adult to cut as much of the meat away from a cooked chicken leg bone as possible. 2.
▪ Maybe not, since Henry, unless he got the thallium anywhere near the chicken leg, would be feeling fine.
▪ She went to the fridge and fetched some cheese and a chicken leg.
▪ Peter quickly hid the chicken leg he was eating and apologised.
liver
▪ Frozen chicken livers are already cleaned, so if they are being used the only preliminary required is the thawing-out process.
▪ Slowly we pull it up through the resistance and find it filled with a light, savory chicken liver mousse.
▪ Add the meats to the pan with the chicken livers and brown on all sides, stirring constantly. 3.
▪ Strain sauce, return to pan, and add chicken livers and parsley.
▪ Pour it over the chicken livers.
▪ I just remembered, some frozen chicken livers behind the ice cream.
▪ Add the cooked pork, cut in small pieces to the chicken livers in the blender.
▪ Reserve chicken livers for another use.
piece
▪ Turn the chicken pieces occasionally and brush them with the glaze.
▪ Brown the chicken pieces well on all sides, cooking them in batches to avoid crowding.
▪ Apart from the inevitable sausages, there were numerous chicken pieces, lamb chops and cubed steak on skewers.
▪ When quite hot, add the chicken pieces, skin side down.
▪ Pour the oil into a frying pan and heat; add the chicken pieces and sauté until golden on both sides.
▪ Add the chicken pieces and any juices that have accumulated.
▪ Add 6-8 chicken pieces and fry for 5 minutes on all sides.
▪ When all the chicken pieces are thoroughly browned, add unpeeled garlic cloves.
run
▪ Inside the chicken run - mesh bed bases tied with baling twine - the hens nested in a fridge.
▪ But foxes in chicken runs get shot, and now the Israelites get the plague.
▪ Beyond some stables, there was a chicken run.
salad
▪ Ate half a chicken salad sandwich, threw the rest away.
▪ Occasionally, she might add a little chicken salad that Percy had made, himself, that very morning.
▪ Cinnamon chicken salad, out of that diabetes book.
▪ We get a chuckle when we hear that so-and-so started chicken salad.
soup
▪ Both the milk and the chicken soup were left behind.
▪ The caldo de pollo is a rich but light chicken soup that is a delightful meal by itself.
▪ The familiar smell of London came in through the window, and mingled with the smell of chicken soup.
▪ No patent remedy exists for these, no chicken soup for the soul, however much we may yearn for ready comfort.
▪ Bowls of the clear chicken soup they loved were put on the table.
▪ So then I made him homemade chicken soup.
▪ No other recipe causes so much grief, with the possible exception of chicken soup - but that's another saga!
▪ There'd be soft tomato sandwiches for tea, and chicken soup and dumplings for supper.
spring
▪ Eloff is no longer a spring chicken - nor is he in control of Northern Transvaal.
▪ After all, you're thirty now and no spring chicken yourself any more.
stock
▪ One idea Kevin had was to make concentrated chicken stocks for flavour.
▪ In a small saucepan, heat chicken stock to boiling.
▪ Heat chicken stock with peeled and finely shredded garlic cloves.
▪ Mix the hot water, chicken stock and half and half.
▪ Of course, I keep nonfat chicken stock on hand.
▪ Thin with chicken stock, if necessary, for proper texture.
▪ Add the chicken stock and when boiling, add the snow pea leaves.
wire
▪ After much midnight hammering, a large wooden frame, covered in chicken wire with a drop down door was constructed.
▪ So this year, to be on the safe side, she had ordered a roll of chicken wire and metal stakes.
▪ Already he's spent more than £100 on chicken wire and spent hours collecting up the various fillings.
▪ Staplegun chicken wire to the walls, slap stucco on top.
▪ Derek and I built the aviary between us out of ordinary three by three timber and chicken wire.
▪ The church was built of brick and chicken wire.
▪ To reduce slippage, tack coarse-gauge chicken wire flush to the deck.
▪ They would search the woods behind the house, and Nockerd would tack the chicken wire tighter around the cage.
■ VERB
add
▪ Include prawns for a special treat or add chicken or ham for a really substantial meal.
Add garlic and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant. Add wine, chicken broth and 2 cups water.
▪ When cooked, drain well and add to the chicken mixture.
▪ Occasionally, she might add a little chicken salad that Percy had made, himself, that very morning.
▪ Pour the oil into a frying pan and heat; add the chicken pieces and sauté until golden on both sides.
▪ Strain sauce, return to pan, and add chicken livers and parsley.
▪ Now add the chicken and, stirring all the time, fry this for 2 - 3 minutes.
▪ If stew is too thick, add chicken stock as needed for desired consistency.
cook
▪ Tropicana - cooked diced chicken mixed with sour cream and fresh mango. 5.
▪ While the sauce is cooking, carve the chicken and place on a warm platter.
▪ Eastern Promise - cooked, diced chicken, celery and walnuts mixed together with curried mayonnaise. 7.
▪ Ask an adult to cut as much of the meat away from a cooked chicken leg bone as possible. 2.
▪ There had been a dinner cooked, turkey or chicken with sausages, roast potatoes and stuffing.
count
▪ Personally he thought Bett was counting her chickens.
▪ But captain Alan Lee is not counting any chickens.
▪ But don't count your chickens.
cut
▪ Meanwhile cut the chicken into thin strips.
▪ Check the seasoning. Cut the chicken into thin strips, add to the sauce and cook for 1 minute.
eat
▪ Less red meat is being consumed, but people eat more chicken.
▪ That night I ate tepid chicken soup and yogurt and a few more codeine pills while watching television.
▪ Personally, I don't even eat chicken.
▪ His first job is to get some younger customers slurping more soya milk and eating chicken curry.
▪ Lea: Well, Robert still eats his chicken.
▪ Robert Alvarez Mark: My sister ate some bad chicken at the mall yesterday.
fry
▪ In a large flameproof casserole, fry the chicken joints in the oil until golden brown.
▪ A delicacy made from fried chicken skin and other assorted leavings.
▪ Heat the oil and fry the chicken for 10-15 minutes.
▪ Downtown Atlanta is normally an unhurried place where the noontime odor of fried chicken wafts through the thick humidity.
▪ She held up a strange-shaped fried chicken wing for me to see or eat.
▪ Lay 1 cut-up frying chicken on the rice mixture, and spread remaining soup over chicken.
▪ If fried chicken could have a more healthful image, it was achieved here.
▪ Neither did she mind that the family now ate at the restaurant every night, one fried chicken part after another.
place
▪ Alternatively, to cook in a conventional oven, place the chicken and mushrooms in an ovenproof dish.
▪ Pour into heated bowl. Place chicken on top of pasta, then ladle black beans on top.
▪ Drain the marinade from the chicken. Place the chicken in an ovenproof casserole and sprinkle the dry soup mix over.
▪ When oil is heated, place chicken in skillet.
▪ Somehow, against her better judgement, she refrained and placed his plate with chicken and salad on to the tray.
serve
▪ She hid them while Roberts served creamy chicken from a steaming casserole.
▪ Strain the sauce through a fine-mesh sieve and pour into a sauce boat. Serve immediately with the chicken.
▪ For a savory accompaniment, poach in stock with a few cloves to serve with ham, chicken or duck.
▪ Ideal for serving with chicken, gammon, pork or sausages.
▪ Drain well. Serve the chicken on a bed of tagliatelle with a green salad.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chicken/seafood etc platter
▪ The accent is again on fish, including seafood platters of king prawns, crab and whitebait.
▪ The Conch serves a great seafood platter.
don't count your chickens (before they're hatched)
▪ Getting an Oscar would be wonderful, but I think it's too early to count my chickens.
▪ If you want to go on a date sometime, you can ask me. But don't count your chickens.
▪ You'll probably get the job, but don't count your chickens just yet.
jerk chicken/pork etc
run around like a headless chicken
▪ The arcade section is hideous, featuring computer-controlled players running around like headless chickens and never attempting a tackle.
sb is no spring chicken
sb's chickens come home to roost
▪ Their extravagant overspending has come home to roost.
▪ Eventually, of course, the chickens came home to roost.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Boy, that chicken smells good.
▪ I'm such a chicken when it comes to skiing.
▪ We raise our own chickens.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A hen or stewing chicken or fowl is a mature female chicken, more than ten months old.
▪ But captain Alan Lee is not counting any chickens.
▪ But foxes in chicken runs get shot, and now the Israelites get the plague.
▪ Make the filling: Season the chicken well with salt and pepper.
▪ Oh, and Marge will bake you a chicken pie.
▪ Put the chicken into the marinade and leave for at least 1 hour.
II.verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chicken/seafood etc platter
▪ The accent is again on fish, including seafood platters of king prawns, crab and whitebait.
▪ The Conch serves a great seafood platter.
jerk chicken/pork etc
run around like a headless chicken
▪ The arcade section is hideous, featuring computer-controlled players running around like headless chickens and never attempting a tackle.
sb is no spring chicken
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If she waited for too long, she would simply chicken out.
▪ We didn't make Abisko, chickening out as the weather worsened and the forecasts began to sound even more dire.
III.adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chicken/seafood etc platter
▪ The accent is again on fish, including seafood platters of king prawns, crab and whitebait.
▪ The Conch serves a great seafood platter.
don't count your chickens (before they're hatched)
▪ Getting an Oscar would be wonderful, but I think it's too early to count my chickens.
▪ If you want to go on a date sometime, you can ask me. But don't count your chickens.
▪ You'll probably get the job, but don't count your chickens just yet.
sb is no spring chicken
sb's chickens come home to roost
▪ Their extravagant overspending has come home to roost.
▪ Eventually, of course, the chickens came home to roost.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I even thought Shaker was chicken.
▪ The menu is heavy on meat and potatoes, with just a few token turkey, chicken and fish entrees.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chicken

Chicken \Chick"en\, n. [AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock; akin to LG. kiken, k["u]ken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G. k["u]chkein. See Cock the animal.]

  1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

  2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken. ``Stella is no chicken.''
    --Swift.

    Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chicken

Old English cicen (plural cicenu) "young fowl," which by early Middle English had came to mean "young chicken," then later any chicken, from Proto-Germanic *kiukinam (cognates: Middle Dutch kiekijen, Dutch kieken, Old Norse kjuklingr, Swedish kyckling, German Küken "chicken"), from root *keuk- (echoic of the bird's sound and possibly also the root of cock (n.1)) + diminutive suffixes.\n

\nApplied to the young of other bird species from early 13c. Adjective sense of "cowardly" is at least as old as 14c. (compare hen-herte "a chicken-hearted person," mid-15c.). As the name of a game of danger to test courage, it is first recorded 1953. Chicken feed "paltry sum of money" is by 1897, American English slang; literal use (it is made from the from lowest quality of grain) by 1834. Chicken lobster "young lobster," is from c.1960s, American English, apparently from chicken in its sense of "young." Generic words for "chicken" in Indo-European tend to be extended uses of "hen" words, as hens are more numerous among domestic fowl, but occasionally they are from words for the young, as in English and in Latin pullus.

chicken

"to back down or fail through cowardice," 1943, U.S. slang, from chicken (n.), almost always with out (adv.).

Wiktionary
chicken
  1. cowardly n. 1 (context countable English) A domestic fowl, ''Gallus gallus'', especially when young 2 (context uncountable English) The meat from this bird eaten as food. 3 (context countable slang English) A coward. 4 (context countable gay slang English) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. ''Compare chickenhawk'' 5 (context countable slang English) A young or inexperienced person. 6 A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (i.e., the loser.) 7 The game of dare. v

  2. 1 (context intransitive English) To avoid as a result of fear. 2 (context intransitive English) To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.

WordNet
chicken

adj. easily frightened [syn: chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied]

chicken
  1. n. the flesh of a chicken used for food [syn: poulet, volaille]

  2. a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl [syn: Gallus gallus]

  3. a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy [syn: wimp, crybaby]

  4. a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

Gazetteer
Chicken, AK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alaska
Population (2000): 17
Housing Units (2000): 21
Land area (2000): 115.411025 sq. miles (298.913169 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 115.411025 sq. miles (298.913169 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13450
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 64.070738 N, 141.874894 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Chicken, AK
Chicken
Wikipedia
Chicken

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl. It is one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a population of more than 19 billion as of 2011. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs.

Genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in Southeast-, East-, and South Asia, but with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa originating in the Indian subcontinent. From India, the domesticated chicken was imported to Lydia in western Asia Minor, and to Greece by the fifth century BC. Fowl had been known in Egypt since the mid-15th century BC, with the "bird that gives birth every day" having come to Egypt from the land between Syria and Shinar, Babylonia, according to the annals of Thutmose III. The chicken genome has changed less from feathered ancestors eradicated by the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event than those of other sequenced avian dinosaurs.

Chicken (film)

Chicken is a 2001 Irish short film directed by Barry Dignam about the way adolescent males sometimes redirect their feelings of affection for each other into often violent or competitive activities such as games of chicken.

Chicken (disambiguation)

Chicken is a type of domesticated bird. See also Chicken (food).

Chicken, chickens, or the chicken may also refer to:

CHICKEN (Scheme implementation)

CHICKEN is a compiler and interpreter for the Scheme programming language that compiles Scheme code to standard C. It is mostly R5RS compliant and offers many extensions to the standard. The newer R7RS standard is supported through an extension library. CHICKEN is free software available under the BSD license. It is implemented mostly in Scheme, with some parts in C for performance or to make embedding into C programs easier.

Chicken (The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster song)

"Chicken" is a song by The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, released as the fourth single from their debut album Hörse of the Dög. It was played often on MTV Rocks (formerly MTV2 Europe) and Kerrang!. The cover of the single features artwork by Buzz Parker, creator of Emily Strange. The song was used in Nike's May 2012 commercial My Time Is Now.

Chicken (game)

The game of chicken, also known as the hawk-dove game or snowdrift game, is a model of conflict for two players in game theory. The principle of the game is that while it is for both players beneficial if the other player yields, their own optimal choice depends on what their opponent is doing: if their opponent yields, the player should not, but if the opponent fails to yield, the player should.

The name "chicken" has its origins in a game in which two drivers drive towards each other on a collision course: one must swerve, or both may die in the crash, but if one driver swerves and the other does not, the one who swerved will be called a " chicken," meaning a coward; this terminology is most prevalent in political science and economics. The name "Hawk-Dove" refers to a situation in which there is a competition for a shared resource and the contestants can choose either conciliation or conflict; this terminology is most commonly used in biology and evolutionary game theory. From a game-theoretic point of view, "chicken" and "hawk-dove" are identical; the different names stem from parallel development of the basic principles in different research areas. The game has also been used to describe the mutual assured destruction of nuclear warfare, especially the sort of brinkmanship involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Chicken (gay slang)

Chicken can be used, usually by gay men referring to other gay men, to mean a young gay man or young-appearing gay man—stereotypically describing an adolescent or pre-adolescent youth.

Author Bruce Rodgers defines the term as "1. any boy under the age of consent, heterosexual, fair of face, and unfamiliar with homosexuality ("So many chickens were flapping around that I thought we were touring Colonel Sanders' plantation”) 2. juvenile, youthful, young-looking." Others have defined it as a young man who engages in sex for money or favors.

In the subculture of the gay community which uses handkerchiefs or bandannas as a code, people who identify as "Chicken" wear a Kewpie doll in their left back pocket. Those who are interested in young men - referred to as chickenhawks—are denoted in the hanky code as wearing one on the right.

The term has existed in the gay vernacular for many decades, and is still used today. David Henry Sterry, a former prostitute turned actor and director, titled his 2002 memoir, Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent. Author Philip Herbst traces its origin to the 19th century, where it was used to describe the youngest sailors on a ship, who were often used for sexual purposes.

Chicken (EP)

Chicken is L.A. rock band Ednaswap's first and only EP. It was recorded after the band left Eastwest Records and was signed to Island Records, and came out a year before their full-length Island debut, Wacko Magneto.

Chicken (video game)

Chicken is a 1982 computer game for the Atari 8-bit series written by Mike Potter and distributed by Synapse Software.

The game is modified version of the Atari arcade game Avalanche, replacing the buckets and boulders with a hen trying to catch her eggs.

An unrelated game, also known as Chicken, was a type-in program in the first issue of Antic Magazine, but this was a clone of the game Frogger.

Usage examples of "chicken".

She aimed to go for that peddler with the ax, but she forgot which hand was which, an' she takes after him with the chicken.

Add 1 large can of tomatoes, 2 more ancho chilies that have been soaked in warm water, and enough chicken stock to make the whole mixture very wet.

Monica, chicken and andouille gumbo, and bread pudding in whiskey sauce.

There was always deer sausage on the stove, and a gumbo full of oysters, shrimp, crabmeat, chicken, Andouille sausage would brim green bubbling.

Oyster dressing and andouille sausage and a few other goodies are stuffed into a chicken that is then stuffed into a duck that is then stuffed into a turkey.

The bhinjanies all sold chickens, rice, flour, beans and, best of all, the throat-burning skins of arrack which could make a man drunk even faster than rum.

They dined on slivers of artichoke heart drizzled with a peppery sauce of black olives and capers, followed by slices of chicken that had been marinated in lime, coriander, and juniper.

I have artichokes with Parmesan cheese, just a little bite of the excellent bread, a few sips of red wine, a plate of eggplant and peppers, and gigantic portions of rib steak, chicken, and lamb.

Once I was settled in front of her with a plate of curried chicken stew with mango in it, plain rice and a couple of pop-padoms, she looked to left and right as if checking for eavesdroppers and leant forward over her nearly empty plate.

Continue broiling 4 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and asparagus is crisp-tender.

Marilee ruined her chicken dish and Axel rescued her with a steak barbeque that was so successful, it made her pout and threaten to lead all his fishing and hiking expeditions.

A chicken leg, a meat pasty, half of a baguette, a large chunk of ripe cheese, and a strawberry tart nestled in the checkered napkin beside a bottle of lemonade.

She selected three, adding them to the small roast chicken, French baguette, and assorted vegetables in her shopping basket, and took it all over to the cashier.

Quebec, and chance hunters brought word that what with sleep, and the measured tramp, tramp of the pig, and the baying of the dogs, and the clucking of the chickens inside the fort, the escape of the whites had not been discovered for a week.

Renunciates are either plucked chickens who cannot make up their minds, or bossy roosters in skirts.