Chicken

n.
  1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
  2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken.
    3. 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.