chicken drumstick
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɪkɪn ˈdrʌmstɪk/
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muslo de pollo
- Sung-ho: I feel reluctant to have chicken drumsticks.
- 6 chicken drumsticks
- 8 chicken drumsticks
- pepper for chicken drumsticks
First up, from Hops chicken, the fried chicken drumsticks, the drumsticks.
- First up, from Hops chicken, the fried chicken drumsticks, the drumsticks.
Examples
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Yet after the service, he ate three chicken drumsticks and two helpings of whipped potatoes.
Fiction book (1996) -
I expect that such a scheme would mean that if I want a chicken drumstick, I will have to maintain my own well-concealed chicken coop even on my own farm, but it is better than uncontrolled collapse.
Blog text (32) -
Her father holds a chicken drumstick.
Fiction book (1994) -
I'd feel safer with a chicken drumstick.
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-Sung-ho: If I eat the chicken drumstick first...
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First up, from Hops chicken, the fried chicken drumsticks, the drumsticks.
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Chicken drumsticks.
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Can you fathom a towering volcano of mashed potatoes, deep-fried chicken drumsticks, topped with corn and erupting with gravy?
Blog text (16) -
Potential weapons with which to attack staff and other inmates include meal trays, plates, corn dog sticks, chicken drumsticks, plastic wrap, aluminum foil, hot sauce, and scalding liquids.
Academic text (2017) -
At the barbecue, I enjoyed a delicious chicken drumstick that was perfectly seasoned.
Synonyms
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Meat from the thigh or hind part of an animal
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1.6
The lower leg of a cooked bird like chicken that people eat
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The lower part of a chicken that people eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and literally derived from combining 'chicken' (the bird/its meat) with 'drumstick' (the lower leg portion served as food), so a learner who knows both words will readily infer it refers to the lower leg of a chicken used as food. This type of food-compound is common cross-linguistically and follows straightforward compositional naming, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Chicken drumstick is named because the lower part of a chicken's leg looks like a drumstick, the short stick used to hit a drum. That's why it now means the lower 'leg' meat of the chicken served as food.