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chicken-and-eggish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
chick-en-and-eg-gish
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic of a chicken-or-egg question; involving a dispute as to which of two interdependent things happened first.

Informal

Etymology

From chicken and egg + -ish.

Usage

Inflected Forms

more chicken-and-eggish (comparative) most chicken-and-eggish (superlative)

Questions

What does chicken-and-eggish mean?
Characteristic of a chicken-or-egg question; involving a dispute as to which of two interdependent things happened first.
Where does chicken-and-eggish come from?
From chicken and egg + -ish.

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