The Clue
Chicken (6 letter answer)
The Answer
YELLOW
Tags
Notes
The answer YELLOW is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1600 puzzles.
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Definition
YELLOW as a noun:
1. (yellow, yellowness) = yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
YELLOW as a verb:
1. turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow"
YELLOW as an adjective:
1. (yellow, yellowish, xanthous) = of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
2. (chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied) = easily frightened
3. (yellow, yellowed) = changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment"
4. (scandalmongering, sensationalistic, yellow) = typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow press"
5. cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight"
6. (jaundiced, icteric, yellow) = affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc