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chicken-and-eggish

chicken-and-eggish adjective: characteristic of a chicken-or-egg question; involving a dispute as to which of two interdependent things happened first.

Adjective

chicken-and-eggish (comparative more chicken-and-eggish, superlative most chicken-and-eggish)

  1. (informal, rare) Characteristic of a chicken-or-egg question; involving a dispute as to which of two interdependent things happened first.

Forms of chicken-and-eggish

comparativemore chicken-and-eggish
superlativemost chicken-and-eggish

Origin of chicken-and-eggish

From chicken and egg + -ish.

Questions about chicken-and-eggish

What does chicken-and-eggish mean?
Chicken-and-eggish means characteristic of a chicken-or-egg question; involving a dispute as to which of two interdependent things happened first.
What part of speech is chicken-and-eggish?
Chicken-and-eggish is an adjective.

Words near chicken-and-eggish in the dictionary

  1. chicken-and-egg problems
  2. chicken-and-egg question
  3. chicken-and-egg questions
  4. chicken-and-egg situation
  5. chicken-and-egg situations
  6. chicken-and-eggish
  7. chicken-breasted
  8. chicken-feed
  9. chicken-feeds
  10. chicken-fried
  11. chicken-fried steak

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