chick

name

1. A surname.

noun

1. A chickeen, or zecchino.

   “Whenever master spends a chick I keep back two rupees, sir!”

   “"Can't do much harm by losing twenty chicks," observed the colonel, in Anglo-Indian argot, as the lot was knocked down to him; "and after all, there is a good deal of uncertainty about steeplechasing."”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English chicke, chike, variation of chiken (“chicken", also "chick”), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”). Sense of "young woman" dates to at least 1860 (compare chit (“young, pert woman”)). More at chicken.

1. To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.

   “plowing in his oats with a very feet furrow; and, after they have “chicked” but before they appear aboveground”

2. To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.

   “He chicked his lips; he cracked his whip; he winked with a knowing leer; he ran down the alley and up the stair, then down the stair and up the alley”