chick

C2+ Topic:Animals

US /tʃɪk/ UK /tʃɪk/ See IPA manual

Minimal pairs

Sounds like sick /tʃ/ vs /s/ Sounds like cheek /ɪ/ vs /iː/

Meanings

1

noun
a young bird, especially a newly hatched chicken

A fluffy yellow chick pecked at the grain near the coop.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a young bird, especially a... chicken fledgling nestlingpoulthatchling

Word family

Derived forms chickabiddy

Related forms chicken

Etymology

A shortening of chicken, from Old English cicen ('young fowl'), from Proto-Germanic *kiukīnam, ultimately of imitative origin mimicking a bird's cheep.

cicen Old English *kiukīnam Proto-Germanic

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Topics

Animals

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# chick

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /tʃɪk/
**IPA (UK):** /tʃɪk/

## Meanings
1. a young bird, especially a newly hatched chicken

## Examples
- A fluffy yellow chick pecked at the grain near the coop.

## Synonyms
- chicken
- fledgling
- nestling
- poult
- hatchling

## Derived Forms
- chickabiddy

## Related Forms
- chicken

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: cicen
- Root: *kiukīnam

## Etymology
A shortening of chicken, from Old English cicen ('young fowl'), from Proto-Germanic *kiukīnam, ultimately of imitative origin mimicking a bird's cheep.

## AI Etymology
Chick is a shortening of chicken, from Old English cicen ('young fowl'), from Proto-Germanic *kiukīnam, ultimately of imitative origin mimicking a bird's cheep. Important recorded forms include cicen (Old English) and *kiukīnam (Proto-Germanic). The current sense covers a young bird, especially a newly hatched chicken. The wider family includes derived forms such as chickabiddy and related words such as chicken.

## Topics
- Animals

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