Found 2 items, similar to spring chicken.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: spring chicken
spring chicken
n 1: a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn:
young person
,
youth,
younker]
2: a young chicken having tender meat
English → English (gcide)
Definition: spring chicken
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.
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2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden;
same as
spring chicken.
“Stella is no chicken.”
--Swift.
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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.
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