Citations:chickenize

English citations of chickenize

Make chicken-like

• 1946, Advertising & Selling - Volume 39, Issues 1-6, page 80:

  Many brewers stretched ingredients to the extent that their beer resembled the faintly chickenized chicken soup one finds in a hash-house.

• 1979, Anne Jeanne D'Arcy, Power points: battered women as authors, page 25:

  The epitome of my femininity dashed against The compendium of his masculinity Chickenizes me with a bec-buc-begawk , eyes as dark as a fish's gut.

• 1981, Laurie Lanzen Harris, Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism - Volume 1, page 107:

  Hinkel and Gackeleia are a family of chickens; gradually we realize they are not humanized chickens but rather "chickenized" humans.

• 2000, Resistance - Issues 10-16, page 44:

  'Twere wrong to force the hens to swim, So here's the problem's crux; It's just as bad for hens to try To chickenize our ducks!

• 1998, Becky Freeman, Becky Freeman Johnson, Rebecca Barlow Jordan, Courage for the Chicken Hearted, →ISBN, page 82:

  I burst through the door singing a chickenized version of an of old Pointer Sisters song.

• 2007, Anne Hart, How to Start Engaging Conversations on Women's, Men's, or Family Studies, page 1532000472:

  “Don't chickenize me,” Sara sobbed, looking up at the officer watching her heaving breasts. “Buc, buc begawk,” she squawked, flapping her Wrenboyt elbows like a chicken.

Make suitable for chickens

• 1987, Research and Creative Activity - Volumes 11-12, page xv:

  Since the action in a Marchen depends on tension between good and evil, the characters in this story exist in a definite "chickenized" culture, related to the human one, and are opposed by an anti-chicken culture of predatory birds and cats.

Integrate an industry

• 1992, Nancy Paulu, Helping Your Child Get Ready for School, →ISBN, page 8:

  Thanks, Mr. Chairman. Not to chickenize this hearing, I will not submit a statement for the record.

• 1999, Farm Journal Beef Extra - Volume 15:

  But he indicates no big plans to acquire a lot of feedyard space any time soon and scoffs at the notion "that we're going to chickenize the cattle business" by massive integration backwards.

• 1999, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Livestock issues: hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, →ISBN:

  They are trying to "chickenize" the hog business, and that will run into trouble one of these days.

• 2015, Christopher Leonard, The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business, →ISBN:

  They have been chickenized. It's a silly sounding word to outsiders, chickenized, but farmers and ranchers spit it out with all the vitriol of a racial epithet.

• 2017, Peter Unwin, Searching for Petronius Totem, →ISBN, page 245:

  “I want to come home, Elaine, believe me. Nothing's the same. Everything's been chickenized.