'spring chicken' definitions:

Definition of 'spring chicken'

From: WordNet
noun
A young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: young person, youth, younker, spring chicken]
noun
A young chicken having tender meat

Definition of 'spring chicken'

From: GCIDE
  • Chicken \Chick"en\, n. [AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock; akin to LG. kiken, k["u]ken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G. k["u]chkein. See Cock the animal.]
  • 1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken. "Stella is no chicken." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera. [1913 Webster]