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arkajalka — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • chicken noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
  • milksop noun A piece of bread sopped in milk.
  • tenderfoot noun An inexperienced person; a novice.

Senses

arkajalka is used for these senses in English:

  • chicken (countable, slang, sometimes, derogatory) A coward.
  • milksop (by extension, pejorative) An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.
  • tenderfoot (historical) A newcomer or arriviste to the region in the American frontier (Old West and Wild West).

chicken — full definition

  1. noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
  2. noun The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
  3. noun (informal) A cowardly person.
  4. adj (informal) Cowardly; afraid to do something.
  5. verb (informal, usually with "out") To back out of something through fear.

milksop — full definition

  1. noun A piece of bread sopped in milk.
  2. noun A dish consisting of bread pieces in a bowl, sprinkled with sugar and covered in hot milk.
  3. noun An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.

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