Synonyms for chicken
- noun
- adjective
Most common
scaredy-cat poltroon fraidy cat hen cry baby game of chicken pussy boy twink
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Pullet — A coward
scaredy-cat, weak sister US, sissy, coward, punk, invertebrate informal, milquetoast informal, poltroon, fraidy cat, pullet slang, yellow belly slang, nancy vulgar slang UK US AU, gutless wonder slang, slag slang dated UK IE, funker rare
Other
poultry, rooster US AU NZ, pussy boy, spring chicken, game of chicken, twink, capon
Adjective
1. Yellow — cowardly
yellow, cowardly, yellow-bellied, fearful, soft, chicken-hearted, afraid, spineless, craven, mousy, timid, gutless, lily-livered, faint-hearted, pusillanimous, nerveless, white-livered dated, timorous dated, milk-livered dated, dastard rare, poltroonish rare, uncourageous rare
Definitions
- n. 1
A coward.
(More commonly used as an adjective with this sense; see below.)
- n. 2
A kilogram of cocaine.
- n. 3
A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- adj. 1
Cowardly.
Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- chickens → scaredy-cats, sissies, cowards, punks…
Example sentences
- hen The hen has been laying eggs for nine whole months.
By length
- 3 letters
- hen1
- 4 letters
- soft1, bird1, punk1, slag1, fowl1, wimp1
- 5 letters
- brick1, nancy2, sissy2, timid2, twink1, birdy2, biddy2, chook1, capon2, mousy2
- 6 letters
- yellow2, afraid2, coward2, craven2, pullet, funker
- 7 letters
- fearful2, poultry2, rooster2, gutless2, dastard
- 8 letters
- cowardly3, timorous3, poltroon
- 9 letters
- spineless2, nerveless
- 11 letters
- milquetoast, poltroonish
- 12 letters
- invertebrate4, uncourageous
- 13 letters
- pusillanimous5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (nancy2 = 2 syllables).