Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcV0MAAD3iBJ6AKr2a" data-dat="c1614"><td class="date"><time><i>c.</i>1614</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Bemont & Fletcher</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/5246">Bondu</a></ce> V iv: Oh my chicken, / My ar boy.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcV1kAAD3iBJ_l2-pt" data-dat="c1620"><td class="date"><time><i>c.</i>1620</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Fletcher</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7914">Women Pleased</a></ce> I ii: <span class="sc">isabella</span>: ’Twill stir a Sat, and I am but a woman, And by that tenure may— <span class="sc">lopez</span>: By no mean Chicken, You know I love ye.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcV3AAAD3iBKDmVN5w" data-dat="1632"><td class="date"><time>1632</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">T. Randolph</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3602">Jealo Lovers</a></ce> IV ii: Deare chicken, / You shall not be so sad [...] by this kisse I’le make you merry.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcV4YAAD3iBKE6ZIwO" data-dat="1640"><td class="date"><time>1640</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">T. Rawls</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3624">Rebelln</a></ce> II i: [to a man] Deare, when we are married Ile have such a one; Shall I not chicken?</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcV5wAAD3iBKLmlERJ" data-dat="1662"><td class="date"><time>1662</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘M.W.’</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3061">Marriage Broaker</a></ce> IV i: <span class="sc">lyd.</span>: Good iends do not abe the Gentleman. <span class="sc">serj.</span>: We’le not abe him chicken, for thy sake.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcV7MAAD3iBKPsBeto" data-dat="1681"><td class="date"><time>1681</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Otway</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3307">Soldier’s Fortune</a></ce> III i: Why, chicken, where’s the remedy?</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcV8kAAD3iBKRNFXAU" data-dat="1697"><td class="date"><time>1697</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">M. Pix</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3485">Innocent Mistrs</a></ce> II iii: Yet if you’ll be kd, my ar chicken, they shall wa for me va.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcV-AAAD3iBKUMNXZM" data-dat="1706"><td class="date"><time>1706</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Farquhar</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7826">Recg Officer</a></ce> III i: <span class="sc">plume</span>: Here, you chickens! <span class="sc">rose</span>: Who lls? <span class="sc">plume</span>: Come hher, pretty maid.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcV_YAAD3iBKansHL0" data-dat="1713"><td class="date"><time>1713</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Gay</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8069">Wife of Bath</a></ce> I i: They claim the Tle, Chicken, but ods-my-life, we always dispute the Power.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWA0AAD3iBKcDDJFa" data-dat="1716"><td class="date"><time>1716</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Addison</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/5965">Dmmer</a></ce> III i: Give me your hand, chicken.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWCQAAD3iBKjtB7Co" data-dat="1733"><td class="date"><time>1733</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">C. Coffey</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7186">Boardg-School</a></ce> 38: Come along, my ar, ar, ltle Chicken.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWDoAAD3iBKnVN_8i" data-dat="1760"><td class="date"><time>1760</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">G. Colman</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/5582">Polly Honeybe</a></ce> 3: <span class="sc">nurse</span>: Elope! Chicken, what’s that? <span class="sc">polly</span>: Why, the vulgar phrase, n away.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWFAAAD3iBKrMy8Z_" data-dat="1771"><td class="date"><time>1771</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Foote</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7935">Maid of Bath</a></ce> <ce><a href="/sourc/5603">Works</a></ce> (1799) II 239: Come hher, my chicken.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWGcAAD3iBKvWjikw" data-dat="1780"><td class="date"><time>1780</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">M.P. Andrews</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6060">Fire and Water!</a></ce> (1790) 22: Y, my sweet chicken, I am love wh you up to the hilts.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWH0AAD3iBKwXDXSK" data-dat="1850"><td class="date"><time>1850</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/10702">Man of Pleasure’s Ill. Pocket-book</a></ce> n.p.: [S]he has now turned to the p dodge, and lls them her <i>darters</i>, her <i>chickens</i>, and <i>kids</i>.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWJQAAD3iBK2LCW5g" data-dat="1873"><td class="date"><time>1873</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">W.H. Thom</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4420">Bhrangers</a></ce> 421: Come, jt be a ltle reasonable, my chicken.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWKoAAD3iBK5neCSd" data-dat="1912"><td class="date"><time>1912</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/976">Day Book</a></ce> (Chigo) 23 Mar. 15/1: One of them gks that thks [...] all he is to do to make iends wh a lady is to step up to her and [...] say, hello chick [<i>sic</i>].</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWMAAAD3iBK9HL3Rh" data-dat="1951"><td class="date"><time>1951</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">M. Spillane</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4199">Long Wa</a></ce> (1954) 119: I will, chicken, I will.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWNcAAD3iBLBA5Yle" data-dat="1974"><td class="date"><time>1974</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">D. Ireland</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2050">Burn</a></ce> 79: ‘Chicken, will you marry me,’ he says wh sual good humour.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWO0AAD3iBLFsD_KR" data-dat="1978"><td class="date"><time>1978</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">F. Norman</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3163">Dead Butler Caper</a></ce> 62: Okay, chicken.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWQQAAD3iBLIlKNd5" data-dat="1995"><td class="date"><time>1995</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1880) <span class="thor">P. Ackroyd</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/5945">Dan Leno and the Limehoe Golem</a></ce> 27: Why, ltle chicken, you mt have performed a nice b of bs to bee so dty.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWRoAAD3iBLNLLOmn" data-dat="2004"><td class="date"><time>2004</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[Ire]" tle="Ireland"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">P. Howard</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/1980">PS, I Sred the Brismaids</a></ce> 147: You take re of yourself, Chicken.</td></tr> </table></sectn><p id="sn3b"><span class="senseno">(b) </span>a young man, often as a direct addrs: <i>my chicken</i>; also as <i>this chicken</i>, self-referential.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWUcAAD3iBLWO-GA3" data-dat="1705"><td class="date"><time>1705</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Vanbgh</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4577">Conferacy</a></ce> II ii: But hast thou said a ltle somethg to her, Chicken, for an expirg Lover ha?</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWV0AAD3iBLZUj1po" data-dat="1815"><td class="date"><time>1815</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">T. Whtell</span> ‘Johnny Breckg’s Weddg’ <ce><a href="/sourc/4814">Poetil Works</a></ce> 135: Why do you not eat your meat, my chickens?</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWXMAAD3iBLdmy_RQ" data-dat="1820"><td class="date"><time>1820</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/3599">Jack Randall’s Diary</a></ce> 71: Pearce was a native of Bristol, and was lled the ‘Game Chicken,’ om his never beg feated.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWYoAAD3iBLjkY7dC" data-dat="1821"><td class="date"><time>1821</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘An Amatr’</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6028">Real Life London</a></ce> I 83: There was a most excellent <i>l</i> at Moulsey Hurst on Thursday last, between the <i>Gas-light man</i>, who appears to be a <i>game chicken</i>, and a prime <i>hammerer</i>—he n give and take wh any man—and Oliver—<i>Gas </i>beat him hollow, was all Lombard-street to a cha orange.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWakAAD3iBLm4ADJe" data-dat="1828"><td class="date"><time>1828</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/11174">High Life London</a></ce> 27 Jan. 2/2: ‘I want you, Dan,’ ntu Mercury. ‘More’s the py, my chicken,’ repli Dan, ‘bee I n’t attend to you’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWcAAAD3iBLqD3Qzj" data-dat="1827"><td class="date"><time>1827</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/825">Atralian</a></ce> (Sydney) 11 July 4/2: [T]he report is current of a ‘game chicken’ — a hardy, chubby [...] St, ‘ae land of k and Johnny Groat’s’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWdcAAD3iBLsR08Lr" data-dat="1831"><td class="date"><time>1831</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/1245">Navy at Home</a></ce> II 110: Well, my game chicken, sce nothg else will serve your turn, I’ll acmodate you!</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWe4AAD3iBLxFTkz5" data-dat="1846"><td class="date"><time>1846</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">D. Corran</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7266">Pickg om N.O. Piyune</a></ce> 116: You’re a hard chicken at all events [...] Blow me if I n get the hang of you.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWgUAAD3iBL2Psvl9" data-dat="1853"><td class="date"><time>1853</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/839">Bell’s Life Sydney</a></ce> 11 June 2/7: One young ck of the Fzregal breed (a regular game chicken).</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWhsAAD3iBL5MxXrT" data-dat="1853"><td class="date"><time>1853</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"> <span class="thor">N.E. Eliason</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7735">Tarheel Talk</a></ce> (1956) 265: I will burn his damd ass off wh tar [...] tha nt sker this chicken.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWjIAAD3iBL_Uyjb2" data-dat="1859"><td class="date"><time>1859</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">G.A. Sala</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3859">Gaslight and Daylight</a></ce> 57: I am no chicken (though not the gray-head old fogey that sultg Squirrel prum to ll me).</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWkgAAD3iBMDLhFm6" data-dat="1861"><td class="date"><time>1861</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote">letter q. Wiley <ce>Life of Jjohnny Reb</ce> (1943) 128: If there is another war this chicken wont be thar when they enlist.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWl8AAD3iBMG1CVZT" data-dat="1866"><td class="date"><time>1866</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">H.L. Williams</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4851">N.-Y. After Dark</a></ce> 91: He has never practised on ‘the Dutch mach, but he’s a tough chicken who has dodged peelers new buildgs and jumped railgs a ltle too “once a while” for him not to have a shake out of them’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWnUAAD3iBMLNuppa" data-dat="1873"><td class="date"><time>1873</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">W.H. Thom</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4420">Bhrangers</a></ce> 215: Look here, my chicken [...] if you but hurt a hair of those men’s heads, I’ll send a bullet through your body.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWosAAD3iBMNx4UGL" data-dat="1887"><td class="date"><time>1887</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1861–5) <span class="thor">J.D. Billgs</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6620">Hardtack and Coffee</a></ce> 52: A Marblehead man lled his chum his ‘chicken’, more pecially if the latter was a <i>young</i> soldier.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWqIAAD3iBMTg5HdG" data-dat="1890"><td class="date"><time>1890</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/6633">Bird o’ Freedom</a></ce> 1 Jan. 1/4: Five bob [...] and dirt cheap, my chicken.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWrkAAD3iBMW4Ks66" data-dat="1892"><td class="date"><time>1892</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">H. Nisbet</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3156">Bhranger’s Sweetheart</a></ce> 35: Don’t you lose sight of this chicken when we land, if you are wise; for he’ll take re that you’re not diddled.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWtAAAD3iBMbWmLfR" data-dat="1900"><td class="date"><time>1900</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Flynt & Walton</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7929">Powers That Prey</a></ce> 198: I a’t no chicken—passed my forty-eighth birthday last month.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWuYAAD3iBMw7W7" data-dat="1913"><td class="date"><time>1913</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/4522">Tth</a></ce> (Sydney) 5 Jan. 9/5: Sez he:— ‘That was near a goner / For this chicken, I clare!’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWv0AAD3iBMh_OrEb" data-dat="1919"><td class="date"><time>1919</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"> Transcript Foster Inq. <span class="thor">L.R. Murphy</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/5661">Perverts by Official Orr</a></ce> (1989) 46: ‘If a man was walkg around and did not act real mascule, I would thk he was a cksucker.’ Another physician reportedly kept a ‘ltle short’ orrly as his ‘chicken’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWxQAAD3iBMlsLdhF" data-dat="1927"><td class="date"><time>1927</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/5480">Danville Bee</a></ce> (VA) 27 May 3/1: The U. S. Navy has a language or a ‘slanguage’ all s own. For stance [...] a young sailor [is] a ‘chicken.’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcWzIAAD3iBMp2tQSn" data-dat="1934"><td class="date"><time>1934</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Franklyn</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7978">This Gutter Life</a></ce> 124: I’m no chicken, I’m over thirty.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcW0gAAD3iBMuO2mga" data-dat="1940"><td class="date"><time>1940</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[NZ]" tle="New Zealand"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">F. Sargon</span> ‘Old Man’s Story’ <ce><a href="/sourc/3909">A Man and His Wife</a></ce> (1944) 81: He was no chicken, his fifti perhaps.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcW18AAD3iBMyRQFeD" data-dat="1958"><td class="date"><time>1958</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">M. Allgham</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6017">Hi My Ey</a></ce> (1960) 79: He’s no chicken. An elrly feller lled Bullard. Been here years.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcW3UAAD3iBM3_4ygZ" data-dat="1961"><td class="date"><time>1961</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Kirkwood</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2283">There Mt Be a Pony!</a></ce> 243: Hey, chicken, you ever hear of Jelly Roll?</td></tr> </table></sectn><p id="sn3c"><span class="senseno">(c) </span>a pt pot, the smaller ntaer of the <a class="xref" href="2ssvuii#7qmxzvy"><span class="xsub">hen and chickens </span><i>unr </i><span class="xhw">hen </span><span class="xpos">n.</span></a></p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcW6IAAD3iBM-riC-G" data-dat="1861"><td class="date"><time>1861</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1840s–50s) <span class="thor">H. Mayhew</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2860">London Labour and London Poor</a></ce> I 256/1: The hens and chickens of the roguish low lodgg-ho are the publin’ pewter measur; the bigger vsels are ‘hens;’ the smaller are ‘chickens’.</td></tr> </table></sectn></sectn><sectn class="fn"><p id="sn4"><span class="senseno">4. </span>as an image of sexual vulnerabily and/or youth [note 19C US . jargon <i>chicken</i>, a close iend or young ‘buddy’].</p></sectn><sectn class="subfn"><p id="sn4a"><span class="senseno">(a) </span> an unrage girl, a sexual ntext.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcW-cAAD3iBNKee1pd" data-dat="1825"><td class="date"><time>1825</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"> implied <a class="xref" href="bbbmfny#xnubh7q"><span class="xsub">chicken man </span></a></td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcW_4AAD3iBNNb8Un5" data-dat="1914"><td class="date"><time>1914</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/9463">Sport</a></ce> (Alai) 12 June 4/2: Cecil R. don’t you thk that Ruby D. is a b of a chicken? Why not have a try for somethg a b olr? </td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXBUAAD3iBNSmDYDV" data-dat="1939"><td class="date"><time>1939</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Howsley</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/1985">Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl.</a></ce></td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXCsAAD3iBNUMawK6" data-dat="1997"><td class="date"><time>1997</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">P. Theroux</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4409">Kowloon Tong</a></ce> 22: ‘You want a chicken,’ the Mamasan would say to Bunt.</td></tr> </table></sectn><p id="sn4b"><span class="senseno">(b) </span>anythg young, small or signifint.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXFkAAD3iBNcGIsXV" data-dat="1832"><td class="date"><time>1832</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Egan</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7722">Bk of Sports</a></ce> 331: Durg the send day — John Webber, of Exeter, and Holm, lerally a <i>uple of chickens</i>, prented themselv. The former [...] srcely eighteen years of age.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXHAAAD3iBNgnvHv6" data-dat="1870 1867 1864"><td class="date"><time>1864</time>, <time>1867</time>, <time>1870</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Hotten</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/1970">Sl. Dict.</a></ce></td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXIYAAD3iBNnhX-Qu" data-dat="1880"><td class="date"><time>1880</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">R. Rowe</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3796">Picked Up the Streets</a></ce> 289: Well, <i>you</i> a’t a chicken.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXJwAAD3iBNr5kpDC" data-dat="1895"><td class="date"><time>1895</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Crowe</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/11120">A. Sl. Dict.</a></ce> 16: Chicken, a term applied to anythg young.</td></tr> </table></sectn><p id="sn4c"><span class="senseno">(c) </span> a novice, p. a young boxer.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXNIAAD3iBNxMNtlt" data-dat="1883"><td class="date"><time>1883</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">G.R. Sims</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4096">How the Poor Live</a></ce> 79: The iendly bouts wh the glov between lol ‘chickens’ and ‘novic’ [...] were once regular Saturday night amements.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXOkAAD3iBN2MduQE" data-dat="1914"><td class="date"><time>1914</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"> <ce><a href="/sourc/5478">Journal Hist. Sexualy</a></ce> V 593: Fourteen young men were ved [...] wh the premise that they would have the opportuny of meetg some of the proment ‘queers,’ [...] and the further attractn that some ‘chickens’ as the new recs the vice are lled, would be available.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXQAAAD3iBN5DiG9F" data-dat="1944"><td class="date"><time>1944</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">P. Kendall</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2195">Dict. Service Sl.</a></ce> n.p.: chicken . . . extremely young rec.</td></tr> </table></sectn><p id="sn4d"><span class="senseno">(d) </span>(<i>gay</i>) an unrage boy, or such boys nsired llectively.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXS0AAD3iBOBUpMzX" data-dat="1890"><td class="date"><time>1890</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/5877">Congrsnal Rerd</a></ce> 21 Apr. 3637: I saw an admirable illtratn of the affectn which a sailor will lavish on a ship’s boy to whom he tak a fancy, and mak his ‘chicken’ as the phrase is [DA].</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXUQAAD3iBOFO3luI" data-dat="1914"><td class="date"><time>1914</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/2536">L.A. Tim</a></ce> 14 Nov. II (letter reprted om <ce>Sacramento Bee</ce> ) 8: There is the piable, the most outrageo, part of all – the jad appet of the loathsome generat, after a time, are not satisfied wh each other; they mand young boys – ‘chickens,’ they ll them – and they will stoop to almost anythg to satisfy their sire this regard.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXVsAAD3iBOJZ60VB" data-dat="c1930"><td class="date"><time><i>c.</i>1930</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"> (ref. to late 19C) <span class="thor">N. Kimball</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2232">Amer. Madam</a></ce> (1981) 237: Big Nellie said he didn’t md. ‘The chicken was so sred he was no e at all and was jt a wet blanket on the party. He’s too fuckg normal.’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXXEAAD3iBOMRvUKg" data-dat="1932"><td class="date"><time>1932</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">T. Croft</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7321">Cloven Hoof</a></ce> 65: ‘Chicken’: a very young boy.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXYgAAD3iBOTdimLh" data-dat="1949"><td class="date"><time>1949</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘Swasarnt Nerf’</span> et al. <ce><a href="/sourc/3097">Gay Girl’s Gui</a></ce> 5: <span class="sc">chicken</span>: Adolcent, homosexual or not.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXZ4AAD3iBOW1CVBO" data-dat="1949"><td class="date"><time>1949</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘Swasarnt Nerf’</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3096">Gaedicker’s Sodom-on-the-Hudson</a></ce> 5: It is also one of the bt plac [...] for non-profsnal chicken.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXbUAAD3iBOakIJn9" data-dat="1959"><td class="date"><time>1959</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">W. Burroughs</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6925">Naked Lunch</a></ce> (1968) 216: Let your hair down, chicken. You’ll feel better.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXcsAAD3iBOetl6JT" data-dat="1964"><td class="date"><time>1964</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/10084">Homosexualy & Cizenship Florida</a></ce> 13: It is this type of youth who ‘go out for chickens’ by beg an active recer of very young boys.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXeIAAD3iBOgunKwY" data-dat="1963"><td class="date"><time>1963</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[SA]" tle="South Ai"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">L.F. Freed</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7990">Crime S. A.</a></ce> 106: An ‘Angela’, a ‘chicken’, or a ‘lamb’ is a boy who travels around wh an olr tramp for homosexual purpos.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXfgAAD3iBOmLgjPA" data-dat="1972"><td class="date"><time>1972</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">E. Newton</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3121">Mother Camp</a></ce> 27: The segregatn is roughly by s: ‘chickens’ unr twenty; [...] and ‘nti,’ forty and over.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXg8AAD3iBOo3UD-A" data-dat="1978"><td class="date"><time>1978</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">L. Kramer</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2309">Faggots</a></ce> 151: Wnie fucks this virg chicken.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXiUAAD3iBOsOWc2y" data-dat="1986"><td class="date"><time>1986</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">R. Campbell</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6981">In La-La Land We Tst</a></ce> (1999) 189: ‘So, tell me, my iend.’ ‘Chicken. I like chicken,’ Whistler said. ‘How much you want to spend?’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXkQAAD3iBOw8a6NT" data-dat="1998"><td class="date"><time>1998</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">B. Gifford</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8088">Saloa Story</a></ce> 224: A club lled Chicken a Basket [...] where olr gentlemen went to meet young boys.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXlsAAD3iBO1ADp5Y" data-dat="2001"><td class="date"><time>2001</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1964–8) <span class="thor">J. Ellroy</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7764">Cold Six Thoand</a></ce> 129: Peavy ns male prostut. Peavy sells choice chicken.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXnIAAD3iBO52TX3g" data-dat="2003"><td class="date"><time>2003</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[SA]" tle="South Ai"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">K. Cage</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6951">Gayle</a></ce> 61/2: chicken n. unrage youth, pecially as sexual prey.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXokAAD3iBO_W_hdU" data-dat="2010"><td class="date"><time>2010</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[NZ]" tle="New Zealand"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">W. Ings</span> ‘Trollg the Beat to Workg the Soob’ <ce><a href="/sourc/11298">Int’l Jrnl Lexig.</a></ce> 23:1 71: A <b>chicken</b> is an unrage youth.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXp8AAD3iBPBssRMB" data-dat="2021"><td class="date"><time>2021</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">T. Pluck</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/11168">Boy om County Hell</a></ce> 123: ‘I a’t to chicken’.</td></tr> </table></sectn><p id="sn4e"><span class="senseno">(e) </span>attrib. e of sense 4d.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXswAAD3iBPLhREcm" data-dat="1967"><td class="date"><time>1967</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/3321">Oz</a></ce> 3 9/2: The merchants put up chicken posters sayg, ‘For your own safety, get off the street.’.</td></tr> </table></sectn><p id="sn4f"><span class="senseno">(f) </span>(<i>US Und.</i>) a kidnap victim.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXvoAAD3iBPSW_yBr" data-dat="1949"><td class="date"><time>1949</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">A. Hynd</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2029">We Are the Public Enemi</a></ce> 132: Go around circl so the chicken won’t know where you are tak’ him.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXxEAAD3iBPU5-SvP" data-dat="1975 1960"><td class="date"><time>1960</time>, <time>1975</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Wentworth & Flexner</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4744">DAS</a></ce>.</td></tr> </table></sectn><p id="sn4g"><span class="senseno">(g) </span>a child who is ed for paedophiliac sexual exploatn.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcXz4AAD3iBPd55u-1" data-dat="1986"><td class="date"><time>1986–7</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/5530">Maledicta</a></ce> IX 155: Young <b>chs</b>, <b>h meat</b> and <b>h fish</b> [...] <b>pretti</b> and <b>chicken</b> (tenr whe <b>meat</b>) are chased by rapac <b>chicken-hawks</b>.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcX1YAAD3iBPgtR-9M" data-dat="1998"><td class="date"><time>1998</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/2040">Inp.</a></ce> 17 Sept. 1: Turner was known to the other men as the ‘chickenmaster’ for his abily to procure children – referred to as ‘chickens’ by paedophil.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcX20AAD3iBPlUWFIW" data-dat="2000"><td class="date"><time>2000</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">M.E. Dassad</span> ‘Chickenhawk’ at <ce></ce> <span>?</span> I’d been huntg chicken at the New York Port Authory for about six months when I picked up Karen, h off the b om Chigo, a naway om one of the rich ’burbs that circle that cy.</td></tr> </table></sectn><p id="sn4h"><span class="senseno">(h) </span>a young lbian.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcX5oAAD3iBPs0mZNc" data-dat="1962"><td class="date"><time>1962</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Grey</span> <ce>Twilight Girls</ce> n.p.: Your ltle Edie is a Mary Jane — a chicken for some dyke.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUOcX7EAAD3iBPy49-wt" data-dat="1999"><td class="date"><time>1999</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor"></span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8729">Queer Sl. the Gay 90s</a></ce> <span>?</span> Chicken – Anyone who is unr the legal age of nsent. Young gays & lbians.</td></tr> </table></sectn><p id="sn4i"><span class="senseno">(i) </span>a young heterosexual male prostute, servicg only women.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns

chicken dinner gay meaning

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EAT CHICKEN YOU'RE GAY

* chicken dinner gay meaning *

And yet, as a gay man-ish person, I have always found the dners to be an unniably queer space, even if I uldn’t offer the exact reason why. Is the fact that Quenux is gay?

That’s an important startg pot, but plenty of events and rtrants n by gay chefs are not necsarily queer. No flourish of sce mak a dish bisexual, nor do flambe make your duck or ice cream “homosexual”: the are terms applied to people, and on that don’t transfer to food, even if an LGBTQ someone igned that dish. Jt as the gay bar is only the tip of the queer-nightlife iceberg, the explicly queer food bs is only the most visible aspect of a much larger, often unseen universe of queer food, one that’s been evolvg and shapg Amerin culture for s.

I found when out queer woman Angela Dimayuga ran the kchen at New York’s Missn Che, wa staff along the genr spectm slippg my boyiend and me lorful, spicy dish wh a si of flirtatn, a playful nod we associated wh gay bars a few drks , not trendy rtrants.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

Durg sprawlg dners at my own apartment, my clique I ll the “gay bros” ll me the “Barelegged Contsa, ” thanks to my fondns for the Food Network star’s recip, served at a table becked wh seasonal r like dick-o’-lanterns while I waltz through the kchen short shorts. The are all moments where the culary queer manifts as s own type of rabow: It wasn’t jt this or jt that which ma the meal a b gay; was a ltle of everythg, the magic of polil liv lived wh joy. Gay-owned Cupke Royale Seattle is known for their Gay cupke, the sal of which benef Genr Jtice League Washgton.

GAY CHICKEN ED MEANG

As rtrants across the untry toss some rabow food lorg to palize on Pri, queer-owned bs make much more meangful donatns — and that activism is part of what mak their rabow cupk gay, and not jt gay for pay, as Eater’s Adam Mosa wr. The rtrant grew to an unlikely cha, born an era when gay bars were vert, closed to outsirs, and absolutely not statns for bachelorette parti. Hamburger Mary’s is “takg somethg as all-Amerin as a burger but makg gay, ” Wright says.

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This isn’t acplished merely by servg vegan Beyond Burgers but, stead, by prentg one of Ameri’s most inic foods a cidly gay ntext. “But there’s drag queens here and there’s trans people and gays, lbians, all lors, all ag.

Also, lerally leggy cktail glass, burgers as large as the pecs of the hunky servers that liver them, and a “No Hate” chicken sandwich parodyg a certa homophobic Southern cha: All are a part of Hamburger Mary’s long, hard participatn the queer cultural athetic tradn of mp. While her say purposely bobs and weav, Sontag clar that mp’s vanguard are homosexuals (her term) who nsir themselv “aristocrats of taste. ” To Sontag, the gay embrace of mp is an assiatnist tactic: Camp’s emphasis on playfulns thwarted the moral strictur of 1964, and allowed a gay sensibily to crique and permeate mass culture at a time when livg an outwardly gay life was taboo.

Stephen Vir, visg assistant profsor of history and mm studi at Bryn Mawr College and thor of the upg Queer Belonggs, has studied this phenomena as relat to The Gay Cookbook, a 1965 volume by Lou Rand Hogan published amidst mastream tert gay subjects sparked by Sontag’s say and an opportuny to ame gay male life as domtic stead of based, though this domticy clud jok about workg wh “a tough piece of meat” and recip for “sorory-sized ssag. Hogan’s book broke through by subvertg social stereotyp wh humor, which would appeal both to gay home oks and heterosexuals who wanted on the joke. A 1983 effort, The Gay Of Cookg by “The Kchen Fairy, ” scribed creamg butter as “no different om most Saturday nights”; 1983’s LA Gay Gourmet by Carl Mueller is dited “To all our iends wh oral fixatns.

GAY CHICKEN

Mac Malikowski and his magaze Mouthfeel brg a gay punk sensibily to the world of aspiratnal food media. “Beg gay has been synonymo wh some sort of stggle, ” Wright explas.

Image men tweed slacks and smart sweaters mixg somethg lled a “Margara” while dancg to the latt Joe Tex bop: that was the behd-closed-doors gay urban pneerg that Birdsall speaks of.

WHO'S THE REAL WNER 'GAY CHICKEN'?

The ntemporary versn of the gay fay meals is the openly queer, muny-foced rtrant.

GAY CHICKEN

For black gay men, “tea” n take many forms — a slang term for gossip or a suggtn of social (and sexual) get togethers — but, unlike mp food styl, vokg tea isn’t strictly about parody. Black gay men adopted and repurposed the togetherns of tea to their fai of choice.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* CHICKEN DINNER GAY MEANING

Slang Defe: What is Gay Chicken? - meang and fn .

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