chicken breast
noun
a congenital or acquired malformation of the chest in which there is abnormal projection of the sternum and the sternal region, often associated with rickets.
chicken-breasted
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a word derived from
chicken breast.
Example Sentences
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I wisht I'd 'a' had him runnin' the 'Guzzuh' instead of that little chicken-breasted chaffer they three-shelled on to me in Los Angeles.
From Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Anton Otto Fischer
If a child be either chicken-breasted, or if he be narrow-chested, are there any means of expanding and of strengthening his chest?
From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Pye Henry Chavasse
And by a pack of base boors, by a puny, cream-faced, chicken-breasted, outlandish starveling, have I been robbed of it.
From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
