chick


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chick1
noun
  • 1 a young bird, especially one newly hatched.

    ■ a newly hatched young domestic fowl.

  • 2 informal a young woman.
– origin ME: abbrev. of chicken.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chick2
noun (in the Indian subcontinent) a bamboo screen for a doorway.
– origin from Urdu chik, from Pers. čigh.
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