chick
意味
- ひよこ,(一般に)ひな鳥
- (親愛の情をこめて)子供
- 《米俗》小娘
例文
Can you return starling chicks to their parents?
ムクドリのヒナを親鳥に返せますか。
Owl chicks are the most beautiful in the forest.
フクロウの雛は、森の中で一番きれいです。
She hovers over that child like a hen with one chick.
彼女はその子につきまとって、うるさく世話を焼く。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English chicke, chike, variation of chiken (“chicken", also "chick”), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”). Sense of "young woman" dates to at least 1860 (compare chit (“young, pert woman”)). More at chicken.