Search Result for "spring_chicken":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a young person (especially a young man or boy);
[syn: young person, youth, younker, spring chicken]

2. a young chicken having tender meat;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Chicken \Chick"en\, n. [AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock; akin to LG. kiken, k["u]ken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G. k["u]chkein. See Cock the animal.] 1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. [1913 Webster] 2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken. "Stella is no chicken." --Swift. [1913 Webster] Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

spring chicken n 1: a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: young person, youth, younker, spring chicken] 2: a young chicken having tender meat