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chicken | dork |

As proper nouns the difference between chicken and dork

is that chicken is a cdp in alaska while dork is ellis island records indicate people registering as early as 1907 with dork as their last name [http://ellisislandorg/search/matchmoreasp?lnm=dork&plnm=dork&first_kind=1&kind=exact&offset=0&dwpdone=1].

chicken

English

(wikipedia chicken) (Gallus gallus) (Gallus gallus)

Noun

  • (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus , especially when young
  • (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
  • (countable, slang) A coward.
  • (countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Compare chickenhawk
  • (countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
  • * 1887 , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet , III:
    • "This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken ."
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Stella is no chicken .
  • 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 (, the loser.)
    • Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
  • The game of dare.

    • Synonyms

    * (bird) cock (male only), chook , hen (female only), rooster (male only) * (coward) * twink * (young inexperienced person) spring chicken * See also

    Derived terms

    * chicken and egg * chicken feed * chicken fillet * chickenhawk * chicken Kiev * chickenpox * chicken salt * chickenshit * like a chicken with its head cut off * like a chicken with the pip * play chicken * run around like a chicken with its head cut off * spring chicken

    Related terms

    * chick

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • cowardly

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To avoid as a result of fear.
  • To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.

    • Derived terms

    * chicken out * chicken legs

    See also

    * egg * poultry * cockerel * hen

    Anagrams

    * English adjectives ending in -en 1000 English basic words

    dork

    English

    Etymology 1

    US 1960s, sense of "silly person" presumably from earlier use as bowdlerization of Lawrence Poston, “ Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang,” American Speech 39, no. 2 (May 1964) (JSTOR 453113): p. 118.Historical Dictionary of American Slang, v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994), p. 638.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1962 , Jerome Weidman, The Sound of Bow Bells page 362:
    • As a matter of fact, this slob was full of information today. He told me why we Jews have different dorks .
  • * 2005 , Mike Judge, Reading Sucks: The Collected Works of Beavis and Butthead :
    • "There's that dork whose wife cut off his dork ." And when people ask him for an autograph he writes, "Best of luck to Betsy. Signed, the guy whose wife cut off his penis."
  • * 1962 , Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad page 167:
    • I entitled the piece "Dorky", dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.
  • * 1967 , Don Moser and Jerry Cohen, The Pied Piper of Tucson:
    • I didn’t have any clothes and I had short hair and looked like a dork . Girls wouldn’t go out with me.
    Usage notes
    Narrowly used to indicate someone inept or out of touch, broadly used to mean simply “silly, foolish”; compare (doofus), (twit).
    Derived terms
    * dorkface * to dorkify * dorkwad * dorky
    Synonyms
    * See also * See also

    Etymology 2

    Uncertain; apparently from (etyl). See (dirk).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label)

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