Dictionary

chicken feed en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Food (usually grain) given to poultry.
2. (countable, idiomatic, uncountable) A very small or insignificant quantity, especially of money.
   • The 20 per cent cut is chicken feed compared to us having to pay Moore compensation for the remaining 16 months […] 1998 August 28, Seak Poh Leong, The New Paper, Singapore, page 64:
   • "Some of them old skinflints has no heart Al but why should I fight with a old man over chicken feed like $10?" 1916, Ring Lardner Sr., chapter 3, in You Know Me Al:
   • Near-synonyms: pocket change, pocket money, chump change
3. (Singlish, countable, uncountable) A trivial or easy task; a piece of cake.
   • BMT [Basic Military Training] was literally ‘chicken feet’ compared to Officer Cadet School (OCS) […] 1994, C. S. Chong, NS: An Air-Level Story, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, →ISBN, page 16:

Forms

Synonyms

scratch · pocket change · chicken scratch · pocket money · chump change

Translations (21)

ja 端金 (small quantity of money) · it bozzima (food for poultry) · ru гроши́ (small quantity of money) · ja チキンフィード (food for poultry) · ru корм для кур (food for poultry) · pt ração para aves (food for poultry) · fi pähkinät (small quantity of money) · fi kananrehu (food for poultry) · sv kycklingfoder (food for poultry) · da hønsefoder (food for poultry) · ru кури́ный корм (food for poultry) · de Hühnerfutter (food for poultry) · nl kippenvoer (food for poultry) · fi hilut (small quantity of money) · ko 닭모이 (food for poultry) · fr trois fois rien (small quantity of money) · de lächerliche Summe (small quantity of money) · pt mixaria (small quantity of money) · ko 푼돈 (small quantity of money) · fr fifrelin (small quantity of money) · da kyllingefoder (food for poultry)

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