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chickens

n. (plural of chicken English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: chicken)

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Chickens (1916 film)

Chickens is a 1916 American short silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.

Chickens (TV series)

Chickens is a British sitcom that was first broadcast on Channel 4 as a television pilot on 2 September 2011, as part of the channel's Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. It was then followed by a six-episode series that was commissioned on Sky 1 and broadcasting began on 22 August 2013 and ended on 26 September 2013. The show is about three men who don’t go off to fight in the First World War and consequently become social outcasts in their village. It was nominated for Best Comedy Programme at the 2014 Broadcast Awards.

Chickens (1921 film)

Chickens is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film directed by Jack Nelson and written by Agnes Christine Johnston based on the story "Yanconna Yillies" by Herschel S. Hall. The film stars Douglas MacLean, Gladys George, Claire McDowell, Charles Hill Mailes, Raymond Cannon, and Willis Marks. The film was released on February 13, 1921, by Paramount Pictures. Its survival status is classified as unknown, which suggests that it is a lost film.

Usage examples of "chickens".

In the far corner of the yard, the chickens were scratching and gossiping among themselves.

I suddenly perceived that I could not rightfully ask him to stay home and watch the chickens while I went adventuring.

There was always a market for chickens, and whatever he got for them he could save toward his fee.

I went to market with the boy twice, taking fledged chickens and my inks and dyes and such roots and herbs as I thought might be unusual there.

In the fall, we sometimes made a trade, a slaughter-pig in exchange for chickens or labor or smoked fish.

Nor could we both work that way, unless we were resigned to our own chickens and garden perishing from neglect.

Outside, I turned the chickens out for the day, and took the pony and the Fool's horse out to an open hillside facing the sea.

It was a tidy and prosperous stead, with chickens scratching in the side yard and three straw hives in the meadow behind it.

I go to my own tasks, as dull as they must seem to one who has a whole flock of chickens to tend and rows of beans to hoe.

I would have done as well to stay home and sell chickens and salt fish.

Might as well bury him, all he's fit for is to lie about in a dusty yard and watch chickens he's not permitted to kill.

He suited his actions to his thought, sprawling in the dappling shade of the birches while staring at the chickens intently.

When each of the dozen has a dozen chickens, you send the old hens back to the chappies you borrowed them from, with thanks for kind loan.

And after a bit, when the chickens grow up and begin to lay, all you have to do is to sit back in your chair and endorse the big cheques.

They were not masterpieces, and I have seen chickens pause before them in deep thought, as who should say, "Now what?