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chickatrice

noun

Etymology

Blend of chick + cockatrice.

  1. derived from calcō
  2. derived from calcātrīx
  3. derived from cocatriz
  4. inherited from cocatrice — “basilisk”
  5. compounded as chickatrice — “chick + cockatrice”

Definitions

  1. A young cockatrice.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chickatrice. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA