chicken feed

See also: chickenfeed and chicken-feed

English

Alternative forms

chickenfeed, chicken-feed

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Noun

chicken feed (countable and uncountable, plural chicken feeds)

Food (usually grain) given to poultry.
(idiomatic) A very small or insignificant quantity, especially of money.
- 1916, Ring Lardner Sr., chapter 3, in You Know Me Al:
  "Some of them old skinflints has no heart Al but why should I fight with a old man over chicken feed like $10?"

Translations

food for poultry

Danish: hønsefoder n, kyllingefoder n

Finnish: kananrehu

small quantity of money

Finnish: pähkinät pl, hilut pl
French: fifrelin (fr) m, trois fois rien (fr)

Japanese: はした金 (はしたがね, hashitagane)
Portuguese: mixaria f

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