"chicken stakes" meaning in English

See chicken stakes in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: Hobson-Jobson suggests a connection with chickeen. Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} chicken stakes pl (plural only)
  1. Small paltry stakes. Wikipedia link: Hobson-Jobson Tags: plural, plural-only
    Sense id: en-chicken_stakes-en-noun-KTpt6lUS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "etymology_text": "Hobson-Jobson suggests a connection with chickeen.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "chicken stakes pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              27
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2010, Joan Smith, Dangerous Dalliance:",
          "text": "“We play for chicken stakes,” Bunny told him. “Pennies.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Small paltry stakes."
      ],
      "id": "en-chicken_stakes-en-noun-KTpt6lUS",
      "links": [
        [
          "paltry",
          "paltry"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Hobson-Jobson"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chicken stakes"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Hobson-Jobson suggests a connection with chickeen.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "chicken stakes pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              27
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2010, Joan Smith, Dangerous Dalliance:",
          "text": "“We play for chicken stakes,” Bunny told him. “Pennies.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Small paltry stakes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "paltry",
          "paltry"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Hobson-Jobson"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chicken stakes"
}

Download raw JSONL data for chicken stakes meaning in English (0.9kB)

{
  "called_from": "form_description/20250107",
  "msg": "Form tags without form: desc='plural plural-only', tagsets=[('plural', 'plural-only')]",
  "path": [
    "chicken stakes"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "chicken stakes",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.