chook
Down-under poultry
Chook is Australian and New Zealand slang for a chicken, whether live or prepared as food: We're having roast chook for dinner.
The word is informal and affectionate, extending to terms like chook raffle (a common pub fundraiser) and phrases like running around like a chook with its head cut off.
Female fowl
- roosterMale domestic fowl
- coopPoultry enclosure
- flockAnimals gathered together
- broilerTop-heat cooking compartment
layer · pullet · capon · free-range · bantam · barnyard · avian · poultry
Single thickness of material
- yolkEgg's nutrient core
- albumenClear protein in eggs
- shellHard outer covering
- clutchMechanism linking engine to gearbox
nesting · incubation · hatchery · broody · fertilized · free-range · cage-free · omelette
cluck
Hen's throaty call
peep · brood · alarm · call · vocalization · noise · dawn · morning · crowing · broody
barnyard
Farm's animal enclosure
forage · scratch · flock · farmer · feed · grain · corn · perch · nesting · livestock
hen
Female fowl
broiler · layer · pullet · capon · free-range · bantam · barnyard · avian · poultry · fowl
layer
Single thickness of material
clutch · nesting · incubation · hatchery · broody · fertilized · free-range · cage-free · omelette · scrambled
plumage
Bird's complete feather coat
molting · fluffy · plucking · soft · barbs · contour · hackle · saddle · tail · wing
bird
Feathered flying vertebrate
- fowlBirds for the table
- colloquialCasual, everyday language
- informalRelaxed, not official
- Aussie slangarvo, bogan, brekkie, cobber, crikey
- regionalismsyouse, fixin' to, fixing to, ain't, aint
- West African Slanghow far, bros, gist, pidgin, broken English
- Australianakangaroo, Vegemite, boomerang, koala, didgeridoo
- Australasian foodsmeat pie, sausage roll, pavlova, lamington, fairy bread
- Kiwi Slangkia ora, jandals, yeah nah, she'll be right, good as gold
- choking the chickenMale autoeroticism slang
- choked the chickenVulgar term, self-stimulation