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chicken-house

chicken-house is the alternative form of chickenhouse.

Meaning of chickenhouse

Noun

chickenhouse (plural chickenhouses)

  1. Synonym of chicken coop.
    • [H]e might catch that dirty big black retriever in his chicken-house, red-legged, with blood in its teeth and henshit in its tail.1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 119
    Synonyms:
    chicken coop

Forms of chicken-house

pluralchicken-houses

Questions about chicken-house

What is chicken-house the alternative form of?
Chicken-house is the alternative form of chickenhouse.

Words near chicken-house in the dictionary

  1. chicken-heart
  2. chicken-hearted
  3. chicken-heartedly
  4. chicken-heartedness
  5. chicken-hearts
  6. chicken-house
  7. chicken-houses
  8. chicken-in-a-basket circuit
  9. chicken-liver
  10. chicken-livered
  11. chicken-neck

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