chick, chickpea, houmous and felafel, play chicken

The government’s insistence on an aggressive write-down of the debt is part of an enormous game of chicken with the debtholders.

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play chicken SLANG
to play dangerous games in order to discover who is the bravest:
They would play chicken by driving head-on at each other until one of them lost their nerve and swerved out of the way.




chickpea UK Show phonetics
noun [C] (US garbanzo bean)
a hard pale brown round bean which can be cooked and eaten:
Chickpeas are used to make houmous and felafel.

houmous

KK: []
DJ: []

n. (名詞 noun)

1. 鷹嘴豆芝麻沙拉醬

felafel

KK: []
DJ: []

n. (名詞 noun)

1. 炸泥豆;炸泥豆三明治

鷹嘴豆(chickpea，garbanzo bean)，又名桃爾豆、雞豆等，是印度和巴基斯坦的重要的蔬菜之一，在歐洲食用鷹嘴豆也十分普遍。

[編輯] 外部連結

• 鷹嘴豆簡介．於2006年10月17日查閱．
• 鷹嘴豆的品種．於2006年10月17日查閱．
• CCTV報導：新疆木壘哈薩克自治縣要在三年內推廣種植鷹嘴豆10萬畝，建成中國最大的鷹嘴豆種植基地。．於2006年10月17日查閱．

chick

n.

1. 1. A young chicken.
   2. The young of any bird.
2. A child.
3. Slang. A girl or young woman.

[Middle English chike, variant of chiken, chicken. See chicken.]