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Definition of Pea-chick
1. Noun. A young peafowl.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pea-chick
Literary usage of Pea-chick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Brain as an Organ of Mind by Henry Charlton Bastian (1880)
"In order to hatch the pea-chick, she had to sit one week longer than is requisite
to hatch an ordinary chick ...... The object with which I mude this ..."
2. A Supplement to the Two Volumes of the Second Edition of The Essay on the by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"... showy, splendid, as that bird, is at all times; the additional term cock
denotes the male of this fowl, the female is pea-hen, the young, pea-chick; ..."
3. Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases: Terms and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"... lyf in the sense of life, but as bjf, dear, friendly feeling, friend, favourite,
intimate. The dutch pauw, our pea, as in pea-chick, pea-hen, pea-cock, ..."
4. Bombay Ducks: An Account of Some of the Every-day Birds and Beasts Found in by Douglas Dewar, Frederick Durand Stirling Fayrer (1906)
"I was therefore restricted to a diet of chapatti and dove, varied occasionally
by a pea-chick, marked down and shot sleeping after the shades of night had ..."
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