chick

A baby chicken (chick), Gallus gallus domesticus

Meanings

A young bird.
A young chicken.
A young child.
A young, typically attractive, woman or teenage girl.
A friendly fighter aircraft.
A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.

From Middle English chicke, chike, variation of chiken, from Old English ċicen, ċycen. Sense of "young woman" dates to at least 1860 (compare chit). More at chicken.
From Hindi चिक़ and Urdu چق, ultimately from Persian چق.

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