chickadee
photo credit: "Look into my eyes" by istolethetv (CC-BY-2.0) Definition: (noun) young woman
Example: Burt saw a cute little chickadee at the end of the bar.
Quote:
"So please be sweet, my chickadee
And when I kiss you, just say to me
'It's delightful, it's delicious, it's delectable, it's delirious,
It's dilemma, it's de limit, it's deluxe, it's de-lovely' "
For some reason, men just like to describe women as birds. The chickadee
is a small, round, black and white bird found in North America. As a slang
word, chickadee is an old-fashioned variation on the
more usual chick, which means "baby bird" in
standard English. Its most famous usage was in comedian W.C. Fields' 1940
movie My Little Chickadee.
Although we associate chick, and especially hippy
chick, with the 1960s, it has been used since around 1900. The
British equivalent, in the 60s and back to the early 1800s, was bird.
In the 1920s, American women were also referred to as wrens
(another small bird) as well as chicklets, another variation
on chick (based on the chewing gum brand name Chiclets).
More recently, the word dove has been popular, especially
with hip hop artists like MC Breed, who says of his girlfriend, “The
only hoe (whore) I ever loved… my dove.”
Romantic, no?
A. C. Kemp | May 22, 2003
