Dictionary entry

A chicken-and-egg situation

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

[IDM ] (infml ) ဘဲဥ အစရှာမရသော အခြေအနေ။

Definition

chicken /'tʃÇkÇn/ n (က) [C] ၾကက္။ keep chickens ❍ free-range chickens ၿခံမေလွာင္ဘဲ ေမြးထားေသာ ၾကက္။ ❍ a chicken run. ၾကက္ၿခံ။ Compare COCK, HEN (ခ) [U] ၾကက္သား။ slices of roast chicken ❍ chicken breast ❍ a chicken wing/thigh. See also SPRING CHICKEN adj ( infml ) သူရဲေဘာေၾကာင္ေသာ။ ❏ a chicken-and-egg situation [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဘဲဥ အစရွာမရေသာ အေျခအေန။ ❏ chicken-feed n [U] ၁။ ၾကက္စာ။ ၂။ ( infml ) (ေငြ)မျဖစ္ စေလာက္။ Your salary is chicken-feed compared to what you could earn in America. ❏ chicken out (of sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) [ဥ] ေၾကာက္၍ ေနာက္ဆုတ္သြားသည္။ He had an appointment to see the dentist but he chickened out (of it) at the last moment.

Examples

  1. Fried/roast/grilled chicken
  2. A chicken leg
  3. [play chicken] : The kids were playing chicken on the railway track when the accident happened.
  4. [game of chicken] : The affair degenerated into the longest game of chicken in diplomatic history.