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chickenfeed

chickenfeed is the alternative spelling of chicken feed.

Meaning of chicken feed

Noun

chicken feed (countable and uncountable, plural chicken feeds)

  1. Food (usually grain) given to poultry.
  2. (idiomatic) A very small or insignificant quantity, especially of money.
    • Near-synonyms: pocket change, pocket money, chump change
  3. (Singlish) A trivial or easy task; a piece of cake.
    • BMT [Basic Military Training] was literally ‘chicken feet’ compared to Officer Cadet School (OCS) […]1994, C. S. Chong, NS: An Air-Level Story, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, →ISBN, page 16

Forms of chickenfeed

pluralchickenfeeds

Questions about chickenfeed

What is chickenfeed the alternative spelling of?
Chickenfeed is the alternative spelling of chicken feed.

Words near chickenfeed in the dictionary

  1. chickeneater
  2. chickeneaters
  3. chickened
  4. chickened out
  5. chickenelly
  6. chickenfeed
  7. chickenfeeds
  8. chickenfucker
  9. chickenfuckers
  10. chickenfurter
  11. chickenfurters

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