chickenshitとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From chicken +‎ shit.

発音

形容詞

chickenshit (comparative more chickenshit, superlative most chickenshit)

1. (slang, vulgar) petty and contemptible; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.)
2. (vulgar, slang) cowardly

   How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.

   • 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, p. 807:

     "How chickenshit do you have to be to go after an old man in a wheelchair?"

名詞

chickenshit (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 chickenshits)

1. (slang, vulgar) (A) petty and contemptible thing(s).

   Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.

   • 2010 December 15, A.J. Jacobs, “George H.W. Bush*: What I've Learned”, in Esquire‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (slang, vulgar) coward

   I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit.

3. (vulgar, military, slang) 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.

同意語

• (coward): coward; (スラング:) chicken, pussy, wuss, shithouse
• (petty または contemptible thing): (mostly 卑語:) shit, crap, bullcrap, bullshit, junk, trash, dogshit, Irish bull, horseshit

形容詞

chicken-shit

1. (vulgar, slang) Contemptibly unimportant.
2. (vulgar, slang) Cowardly.

   How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.

名詞

chicken-shit (複数形 chicken-shits)

1. (vulgar, slang) A coward.

   I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chicken-shit.

2. (vulgar, slang) Behavior characteristic of a coward.
3. (vulgar, slang) Something petty or contemptible.

同意語

• (noun; coward) coward, chicken (スラング)
• (noun; behavior like a coward) cowardice
• (noun; petty または contemptible thing) shit, crap, bullcrap, bullshit, junk, trash, dogshit, Irish bull, horseshit (all vulgar except "junk", "trash", かつ "Irish bull")
• (adjectives) cowardly, ignoble, chicken (スラング)

名詞

chicken-shit (複数形 chicken-shits)

1. Alternative form of chickenshit.