This can be used affectionately, to a girl, or insultingly, normally to a man. ‘How would you like that, chicken?’ is a mother addressing her daughter in Mariana, by Monica Dickens. There is a comparable use in Resolve This Day, by Geoffrey...

According to ancient Chinese texts, the chicken or common fowl came to China around 1400 BCE; it is one of the first domesticated animals mentioned in writing. Most geneticists think that the ancestor of domestic chickens (Gallus gallus), the red...

One might in modern English hear a reference to a ‘biddy’, especially an ‘old biddy’, meaning a woman, but as a vocative the word is almost never used. What is sometimes heard, especially in Ireland, is ‘Biddy’ being...

One of the most widely domesticated poultry species (Gallus gallus), raised worldwide for its meat and eggs. Descended from the wild red jungle fowl of India, chickens have been domesticated for at least 4,000 years. Not until the 19th century did...

Chicken merry, hawk is near. (Jamaican) Chickens are counted in autumn. (Russian) Don’t count your chickens before they be hatched. (English) On Monday, not even the chickens lay eggs....

This article is about the animal. For chicken as human food, see Chicken (food). For other uses, see Chicken (disambiguation). The chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated fowl, believed...