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noun tʃɪktʃɪk 1A young bird, especially one newly hatched. the cattle egrets hatched and reared two chicks with modifier cuckoo chicks Example sentencesExamples - He hatched and hand-reared 22 chicks at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, which is home to the largest colony of breeding flamingoes in the county.
- The newly hatched chicks run to shore from the burrows, enter the water, and swim to the parents.
- Parent birds rarely succeed in rearing both of their chicks.
- Cuckoos con other birds into rearing their chicks because it's so much easier than doing it themselves.
- After the experiment, we monitored the experimental birds until chicks fledged.
- After about eighteen days' incubation, one or two chicks will hatch, fledge, and begin to whisper the blue-throat song.
- Yet, the presence of cowbird chicks is often accompanied by a reduction of the number of host chicks and fledglings.
- You won't need to be patient if you're looking for Peregrine Falcon chicks.
- A parent feeds only its own chick in the crèche, recognizing the chick by its call note.
- In the wild it's the father bird that hatches the eggs and protects the chicks from the mother bird who would kill them.
- More and more birds are losing chicks and returning to nest the following year instead of skipping a year.
- They climb trees with ease and prey on birds, chicks and eggs in their nests.
- They climbed trees and devoured eggs, chicks, and birds.
- These birds eat mice, chicks and any small animal they can find.
- The young chicks fledge or leave the nest in around 60 days and become fully independent in 14 more days.
- The Polynesians also accidentally introduced rats, which may have fed on the eggs and chicks of ground-nesting birds.
- Young chicks are brooded for an unknown period of time after hatching.
- This spring, we've watched as the mother falcon warmed her eggs and saw the falcon chicks right after they hatched.
- Scientists have discovered there is a bird that can detect cuckoo chicks in the nest.
- But if the mothers are late returning from the ocean with food, the newly hatched chicks will die.
- 1.1 A newly hatched young domestic fowl.
dozens of fluffy, chirruping chicks hatched out Example sentencesExamples - In the battle against bird flu, international health authorities must handle a thriving legal trade in live birds and chicks.
- A good hatch from a small incubator is indicated when 70 percent or more of the eggs hatch, and the chicks are active and fluffy.
- I also used domestic chicks with prior experience of both prey types as predators.
2informal A young woman. she's a great-looking chick Example sentencesExamples - Dumb blond actress chicks look really good up on a big movie screen or on the pages of a magazine.
- Even when she became fashionable and the school chick, she still remained my stubborn, loyal friend, willing to defend me.
- I'm never going to skate quite like they are, I'm never going to attract as many chicks.
- He used his role as a journalist to meet high school chicks, and the nation is outraged, simply outraged that a journalist would manipulate someone in that way.
- If you were a woman you'd be a girly girl and grungy chicks aren't your thing.
- You should see all those hot chicks near the school grounds!
- Why work out when you can wow the chicks with these beauties!
- If you think of girl bands merely as hot chicks who can sing and dance, think again.
- A slight catfight was going on between a popular bimbo chick and a new girl.
- I keep forgetting broads don't like it when you call them chicks.
- You'll see lots of attractive chicks with nothing to do and no real job descriptions.
- I'm not one of those groupie chicks who only likes sports for the hot babe action.
- The most puzzling situation happens when a chick rejects you for a less attractive male.
- Beauty contests should be about hot chicks in skimpy outfits.
- You'll be hard-pressed to find a Western chick that is as feminine as your average Japanese girl and as petite and kind-hearted.
- Were he and his gift for healing a big hit with the chicks in high school?
- It is more important to be you than to be the hottest chick or guy in school.
- There was a chick from Cross High School that Sam recognized.
- Both chicks, I have to say, are stunningly attractive; classic beauties who radiate an unmediated sexiness.
- He's the kind of guy that'd be interested in Goth punk chicks, not girls like me.
Synonyms young woman, young lady, girl, schoolgirl, slip of a girl
Phrases dialect No children at all. Example sentencesExamples - She had neither chick nor child poor soul, but she was well-respected and good to the poor.
- Some policy analysts, like myself, have neither chick nor child, and are dealing solely with educational theory.
- I have left to me neither chick nor child; all are gone, and in my will I have left you everything.
- I will say in a hot minute that I have neither chick nor child in that war so can sleep at night because nobody will be showing up on my doorstep to tell me my loved ones is dead.
- I look back and see how the universe opened the way and here I am five years later, a full-time professional protester of no fixed abode and neither chick nor child to show for it.
Origin Middle English: abbreviation of chicken. Rhymes artic, brick, click, crick, flick, hand-pick, hic, hick, kick, lick, mick, miskick, nick, pic, pick, quick, rick, shtick, sic, sick, slick, snick, stick, thick, tic, tick, trick, Vic, wick noun tʃɪktʃɪk (in South Asia) a folding bamboo screen for a doorway.
Origin From Urdu chik, from Persian čigh. nounCHiktʃɪk 1A young bird, especially one newly hatched. Example sentencesExamples - Parent birds rarely succeed in rearing both of their chicks.
- You won't need to be patient if you're looking for Peregrine Falcon chicks.
- After the experiment, we monitored the experimental birds until chicks fledged.
- The newly hatched chicks run to shore from the burrows, enter the water, and swim to the parents.
- The Polynesians also accidentally introduced rats, which may have fed on the eggs and chicks of ground-nesting birds.
- Young chicks are brooded for an unknown period of time after hatching.
- In the wild it's the father bird that hatches the eggs and protects the chicks from the mother bird who would kill them.
- This spring, we've watched as the mother falcon warmed her eggs and saw the falcon chicks right after they hatched.
- The young chicks fledge or leave the nest in around 60 days and become fully independent in 14 more days.
- He hatched and hand-reared 22 chicks at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, which is home to the largest colony of breeding flamingoes in the county.
- They climb trees with ease and prey on birds, chicks and eggs in their nests.
- They climbed trees and devoured eggs, chicks, and birds.
- Scientists have discovered there is a bird that can detect cuckoo chicks in the nest.
- After about eighteen days' incubation, one or two chicks will hatch, fledge, and begin to whisper the blue-throat song.
- Cuckoos con other birds into rearing their chicks because it's so much easier than doing it themselves.
- But if the mothers are late returning from the ocean with food, the newly hatched chicks will die.
- These birds eat mice, chicks and any small animal they can find.
- Yet, the presence of cowbird chicks is often accompanied by a reduction of the number of host chicks and fledglings.
- A parent feeds only its own chick in the crèche, recognizing the chick by its call note.
- More and more birds are losing chicks and returning to nest the following year instead of skipping a year.
- 1.1 A newly hatched domestic fowl.
Example sentencesExamples - A good hatch from a small incubator is indicated when 70 percent or more of the eggs hatch, and the chicks are active and fluffy.
- I also used domestic chicks with prior experience of both prey types as predators.
- In the battle against bird flu, international health authorities must handle a thriving legal trade in live birds and chicks.
2informal A young woman. she's a great-looking chick Example sentencesExamples - The most puzzling situation happens when a chick rejects you for a less attractive male.
- You should see all those hot chicks near the school grounds!
- I'm never going to skate quite like they are, I'm never going to attract as many chicks.
- Were he and his gift for healing a big hit with the chicks in high school?
- I keep forgetting broads don't like it when you call them chicks.
- He's the kind of guy that'd be interested in Goth punk chicks, not girls like me.
- Beauty contests should be about hot chicks in skimpy outfits.
- If you were a woman you'd be a girly girl and grungy chicks aren't your thing.
- You'll see lots of attractive chicks with nothing to do and no real job descriptions.
- I'm not one of those groupie chicks who only likes sports for the hot babe action.
- Even when she became fashionable and the school chick, she still remained my stubborn, loyal friend, willing to defend me.
- You'll be hard-pressed to find a Western chick that is as feminine as your average Japanese girl and as petite and kind-hearted.
- There was a chick from Cross High School that Sam recognized.
- He used his role as a journalist to meet high school chicks, and the nation is outraged, simply outraged that a journalist would manipulate someone in that way.
- Dumb blond actress chicks look really good up on a big movie screen or on the pages of a magazine.
- It is more important to be you than to be the hottest chick or guy in school.
- Both chicks, I have to say, are stunningly attractive; classic beauties who radiate an unmediated sexiness.
- If you think of girl bands merely as hot chicks who can sing and dance, think again.
- Why work out when you can wow the chicks with these beauties!
- A slight catfight was going on between a popular bimbo chick and a new girl.
Synonyms young woman, young lady, girl, schoolgirl, slip of a girl
Phrases dialect No children at all. Example sentencesExamples - She had neither chick nor child poor soul, but she was well-respected and good to the poor.
- I will say in a hot minute that I have neither chick nor child in that war so can sleep at night because nobody will be showing up on my doorstep to tell me my loved ones is dead.
- I have left to me neither chick nor child; all are gone, and in my will I have left you everything.
- Some policy analysts, like myself, have neither chick nor child, and are dealing solely with educational theory.
- I look back and see how the universe opened the way and here I am five years later, a full-time professional protester of no fixed abode and neither chick nor child to show for it.
Origin Middle English: abbreviation of chicken. nounCHiktʃɪk (in South Asia) a folding bamboo screen for a doorway.
Origin From Urdu chik, from Persian čigh. |