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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 guinea
  2. chicken gun
  3. chicken guns
  4. chicken hawk
  5. chicken hawks
  6. chicken house
  7. chicken houses
  8. chicken jockey
  9. chicken jockeys
  10. chicken kiev
  11. chicken Kiev-style

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