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SPRING CHICKEN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young chicken having tender meat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("spring chicken" is a kind of...):

chicken; Gallus gallus (a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A young person (especially a young man or boy)

Synonyms:

spring chicken; young person; younker; youth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("spring chicken" is a kind of...):

juvenile; juvenile person (a young person, not fully developed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spring chicken"):

blade (a dashing young man)

hobbledehoy (an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy)

pup; puppy (an inexperienced young person)

pupil; school-age child; schoolchild (a young person attending school (up through senior high school))

slip (a young and slender person)

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