SPRING CHICKEN • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Spring chicken

"Spring chicken" Quotes from Famous Books

... hole. But he affords some sport, and as an article of food, beats the long-legged hare out of sight. He is excellent in stews or soups, while the after half of him, flattened down with the hatchet, parboiled and fried brown in butter or pork fat, is equal to spring chicken. ...

— Woodcraft • George W. Sears

... rapidly depriving her even of novelty. What was once supposed to be the spring grass has been found to be nothing but the fall grass, with the green stealing back into the withered blades. As for the spring lamb which used to crop the spring grass, it is now out of the cold-storage where the spring chicken and the new-laid eggs of yesteryear come from. It is said that there are no birds in last year's nests, but probably a careful examination would discover a plentiful hatch of nestlings which have ...

— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells

... any spring chicken. He shouldered a musket in the Civil War, an' durin' the Indian mix-ups was generally found floatin' around wherever the fun was thickest. He was mighty close friends with the Pacific scout, old 'Death-on-th'-Trail,' ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... Jack," returned the captain, drily. "You're a mild spring chicken, you are; it is only that wild, rampagious companion of yours that I want ...

— Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks - Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series • Bracebridge Hemyng

... handy man. "Say, where ever did you get it? Talk of stuff? Somebody has mistaken you for a spring chicken." ...

— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut