Difference between Chicken and Chick

What is the difference between Chicken and Chick?

Chicken as a noun is a domestic fowl, gallus gallus, especially when young while Chick as a noun is a young bird.

Chicken

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: cowardly

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To avoid as a result of fear. To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young The meat from this bird eaten as food. A coward. A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. A young person of either sex. 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 loser.

Chick

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A young bird.A young chicken.A young (especially attractive) woman.A woman.

We hope you now know whether to use Chicken or Chick in your sentence.

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