Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having that form of chest in which the costal cartilages are carried inward and the sternum is thrown forward, so that the thorax resembles somewhat that of a carinate bird. In pathology it is characteristic of rickets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a narrow, projecting
chest , caused by forwardcurvature of thevertebral column .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a chest deformity marked by a projecting breastbone caused by infantile rickets
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Examples
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Then another barrister rose — a chicken-breasted little man, wearing gold pince-nez.
The Years 2004
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A chicken-breasted chest is seen in Pott's disease of the spine, and to some extent in bad cases of enlargement of the tonsillar tissue; a "violin-shaped" chest in rickets; a bulging of one side in pleurisy with fluid; and a long, narrow chest, with a general flattening of the upper part, in older children predisposed to consumption.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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The other man was narrow and chicken-breasted, his long legs weak, his smile a smirk, his pronunciation so affected that we disgraced him because we blundered from pure lack of comprehension.
At Plattsburg Allen French 1908
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_If a child be either chicken-breasted, or if he be narrow-chested, are there any means of expanding and of strengthening his chest_?
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844
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And by a pack of base boors, by a puny, cream-faced, chicken-breasted, outlandish starveling, have I been robbed of it.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813
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John has his own tent somewhere, I don’t know where, probably living with his chicken-breasted baby redhead.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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John has his own tent somewhere, I don’t know where, probably living with his chicken-breasted baby redhead.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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John has his own tent somewhere, I don’t know where, probably living with his chicken-breasted baby redhead.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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John has his own tent somewhere, I don’t know where, probably living with his chicken-breasted baby redhead.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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(making a guttural sound as if of execration) 'he (viz. the said Scotsman) was so chicken-breasted.'
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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