chicken soup
chicken soup noun: a cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems.
Noun
chicken soup (countable and uncountable, plural chicken soups)
- A cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems.
- Duct tape is the chicken soup of plumbing.
- Synonyms:
- chicken noodle soup, panacea
- A mixed-up mush.
- His hand got caught in a meat grinder and turned into chicken soup.
- The aqueous solution of nutrients used in the Viking lander biological experiments to detect microbial Martian life.
chicken soup meaning in Tamil and Bengali
chicken soup in Tamil
- கோழி வடிசாறு, கோழிச்சாறு
chicken soup in Bengali
- একটি তালগোল পাকানো পিণ্ড, খিচুড়ি
Synonyms of chicken soup
Forms of chicken soup
| plural | chicken soups |
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Origin of chicken soup
Originally, any soup made with either pieces of chicken or chicken broth as its main ingredient. The figurative sense comes from the fact that the soup is a folk remedy for colds.
Questions about chicken soup
- What does chicken soup mean?
- Chicken soup means a cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems.
- What is chicken soup in Tamil?
- Chicken soup in Tamil is கோழி வடிசாறு, கோழிச்சாறு. See Chicken soup meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is chicken soup?
- Chicken soup is a noun.
- What is the plural of chicken soup?
- The plural of chicken soup is chicken soups.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: chicken soup (page history and authors); chicken soup (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chicken soup (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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