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chickenshit

chickenshit adjective: petty; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.).

Adjective

chickenshit (comparative more chickenshit, superlative most chickenshit)

  1. (slang, vulgar) Petty; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.)
  2. (slang, vulgar) Cowardly.
    • How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.
    • "How chickenshit do you have to be to go after an old man in a wheelchair?"2011, Stephen King, 11/22/63, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 807
    Synonyms:
    chickenpoop

Noun

chickenshit (countable and uncountable, plural chickenshits)

  1. (slang, vulgar) A petty and contemptible thing or things.
    • Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.
    • I went to see Lyndon Johnson, and I was telling him I wanted to run for Senate. And he said, "The difference between the Senate and the House is the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit." Johnson was amazing.2010 December 15, A.J. Jacobs, “George H.W. Bush*: What I've Learned”, in Esquire
    Synonyms:
    shit
  2. (slang, vulgar) A coward.
    • I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit.
    Synonyms:
    coward
  3. (slang, vulgar) A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet.
    • That chickenshit drove his men nearly to mutiny.
  4. (literally, vulgar) Chicken manure.
    Synonyms:
    chickenpoop

Synonyms of chickenshit

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Forms of chickenshit

Adjective
comparativemore chickenshit
superlativemost chickenshit
alternative formchicken-shit
alternative formchicken shit
Noun
pluralchickenshits

Origin of chickenshit

From chicken + shit.

Words that rhyme with chickenshit

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Questions about chickenshit

What does chickenshit mean?
Chickenshit means petty; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.).
What part of speech is chickenshit?
Chickenshit can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near chickenshit in the dictionary

  1. chickens for Colonel Sanders
  2. chickens for KFC
  3. chickens from hell
  4. chickens of the woods
  5. chickens out
  6. chickenshit
  7. chickenshithead
  8. chickenshits
  9. chickensona
  10. chickensonas
  11. chickenspike

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