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My mother tells me that "in her day" (which might be the 1940s or 50s I suppose), "chicken" meant either a very young fowl, or fowl meat. Live adult fowl were called hens or roosters as appropriate,...
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would I be right in guessing that wherever you grew up it wasn't on a chicken farm? No. For a while after we emigrated to South Africa we lived with my uncle who farmed chickens. I was being...
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At what age does a butchered lamb become mutton? Consider this excerpt from OED2:5. In various applications. a. The flesh of the lamb used as food. 1620 Venner Via Recta iii. 50 Lambe of two or three...
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This is the OED's definition 1:Pleasing to the mind or the senses, agreeable, acceptable, welcome.[...]1656-9 B. HARRIS Parival's Iron Age 99 Nor ever had the Catholicks a more gratefull Victorie....
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I have worked in the specialty food and restaurant businesses (in New York and North Carolina) and was told that "lamb" was a sheep of less than one year old. I found this definition:A sheep less than...
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Then again, when does a chicken cease being a chicken and become a dirty old man?
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In the midwest US, "chickens" was the generic term used to describe roosters and hens ever since I can remember, and I lived in a small town where some folks raised them in their backyards. I also...
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My experience was similar to Eyehawk. I spent much of my youth a bit south of Iowa with stints in Kentucky, Arkansas and Tennessee. My relatives were all subsistence farmers and we learned about...
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What Eyehawk and janeskid said goes for Texas too.Fowl would not be used in everyday speech to refer to domestic birds - chickens, ducks, geese, etc. that you raised were called poultry collectively....
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Let's not forget "biddy", meaning a young hen. I don't have any farming background, but this is a term that hasn't come up in this thread yet. I assumed it's used now and then.
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Funny --- the only time i've ever seen "biddy" used, was in the term "old biddy" --- meaning DEFINITELY not a spring chicken!from the Non Sequitur Dept.:Sister Anna, you'll carry the Banner!(.......
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A long time ago on a PBS documentary, an elderly African American lady was describing the actions of a then-elderly lady from long ago, in the South, shepherding youngsters to safety. "She was like a...
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Evan Morris had something to say about biddy:"Biddy" is actually a very interesting word because it has two separate origins, both fairly well-documented, which is unusual for a slang term. The...
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... a derogatory slang term for women, much in the same unfortunate way that "chick" was in the 1960's.The only use of chick for girls/women that I am aware is neutral or mildly flattering. The same...
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"Derogatory" is perhaps the wrong word. "Patronizing" or "trivializing" would be a bit better. By the mid-70s, "chick" had come to be seen by many as objectionable on these grounds. I don't think I've...
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I'm treading on thin ice for sure, but I believe "chick" has been co-opted by some younger lesbian folk as a badge of "girl" power.
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And isn't "chick flick" still current for sentimental movies especially around Valentines day?
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