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Definition of Chicken-breasted
1. Adjective. Having a chest deformity marked by a projecting breastbone caused by infantile rickets.
Definition of Chicken-breasted
1. Adjective. Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chicken-breasted
Literary usage of Chicken-breasted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1873)
"chicken-breasted. HATOBA, n. A pier, wharf, a landing. HAYA-GANE, n. An alarm
bell, fire-bell. HATSU, n. A numeral used in counting the discharge of guns. ..."
2. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"chicken-breasted, see Lordosis. CHICK'EN-BROTH. When chicken-tea is boiled down
one-half, with the addition of a little ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"spec, broiler, fry, peeper, chick. chicken-breasted, a. gibbous (rare or
lech.), pigeon-breasted. chief, a. 1. first, arch (chiefly literary or used in ..."
4. Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected ...by Francis Grose, Pierce Egan by Francis Grose, Pierce Egan (1823)
"chicken-breasted. Said of a woman with scarce any breasts. CHICKEN-BUTCHER.
A poulterer. CHICKEN-HAMMED. Persons whose legs and thighs are bent ..."
5. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"... a chicken breast or chicken breasted. The word Cruit, at the present day, when
signifying a personal deformity, is often applied to a hump on the back. ..."
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