Vocabulary: meat

Plural is usually "fish" (unchanged), though "fishes" is used when referring to multiple species.

• a cold-blooded animal that lives in water, breathing through gills and moving with fins

  They caught three fish in the lake.

"Fish for compliments" = angle for praise. "Fish out" = pull something out (often from a bag or pocket).

1. to try to catch fish

   They fished all morning without a single bite.

2. (figurative, "fish for") to try to obtain something indirectly

   She was clearly fishing for compliments.

"Chicken" is also common informal slang for a coward: "Don't be a chicken."

1. a common domesticated bird kept for its eggs and meat

   The farmer let the chickens out into the yard.

2. the meat of this bird, eaten as food

   We had roast chicken for Sunday dinner.

Meat from a pig. Compare beef (cattle), mutton (sheep), venison (deer).

• meat from a pig, used as food

  They grilled pork chops for dinner.

Like beef (cow) and pork (pig), venison is the French-derived name for deer meat - a class distinction dating back to the Norman Conquest.

• the meat from a deer

  They served venison stew at the lodge.

Meat of a mature sheep; lamb comes from a young sheep, similar to how veal (young) differs from beef (mature).

• the meat of a mature sheep, with a stronger flavor than lamb

  The stew was made with mutton and root vegetables.

• meat from cattle

  They grilled beef for the barbecue.