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Synonyms for chicken

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Synonyms for chicken

a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

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a foolhardy competition

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But next time you're cooking a chook, think about a lean Coonawarra cabernet....
Vivien Christian posted: "Frozen chook" = equals a dead chook without any feathers; even when alive a chook has only a pea-sized brain.
The development consists of eight houses with double-glazed windows, fans, solar panels, water tanks, and beautifully landscaped native gardens that provide both privacy and a communal area for vegetables and chooks.
Truth to tell though, it does seem that banning manual centrifugally induced cut-throat chook haemorrhage as a means of spiritual protection pales into significance when compared with Japanese whale 'research', the clubbing of baby seals in Canada, and the wholesale massive marine speciation erosion caused by commercial fishing using multi-kilometre length nets of great depth.
Sometimes they would acknowledge us by saying something like: 'Eh oop, chook.'
The other opted for Chook Chicken Masala - chicken marinated in tikka spice topped with fresh cream, peppers, mushrooms and tomatoes (pounds 6.75).
Think of the nutritious, delicious, fresh, free range eggs you could have at your fingertips--not to mention the endless supply of chook manure, which is an excellent garden fertiliser.
Jennifer Smith of JD Cadisle Development Corp.; Michelle Sedlitz of Citi Habitats New York; Matthew Chook of On Carnegie Hill; Marie McKeown of Urban Habitat and Marie Towers of Halstead Property, LLC.
So in the spirit of Eugene from Big Brother, let's call it a Chook Show.
For Chook, as he is affectionately known, aims to continue a run of success by making Britain's squad for the World Junior Championships in Jamaica.
NEW EastEnders' heart-throb Chook Sibtain still bears the scars of a freak accident which doctors feared he would not survive.
The tractor and chook endpapers reinforce the farming theme.
"Bustopher often wanders around in the chook pen, playing with the chooks as if he was one of them, not a predator," she said.
Even the humble Aussie chicken, or chook, may have an Irish link.