The word for folder has an interesting history. It came into English in the 16th century from the French verb filer, to string on a thread. This relates to storing documents by tying them together with string. It comes from the Latin filum, meaning thread, from which we also get our word filament.
Common misspellings of the word chicken are: 1  chicken in french. 2  chicken in spanish. 3  chicken in german. 4  chicken in italian. 5  chicken in portuguese.
1. a domestic fowl, Gallus domesticus, descended from various jungle fowl of SE Asia and developed in a number of breeds for its flesh, eggs, and feathers. 2. the young of this bird, esp. when less than a year old. 3. the flesh of the chicken used as food. 4. Slang. a. a cowardly or fearful person.he chicken crept through the pales of the coop and ran, with some show of liveliness, to her feet; while Chanticleer and the ladies of his household regarded her with queer, sidelong glances, and then croaked one to another, as if communicating their sage opinions of her character.