I got an email from some American nutcase who has a thing about chickenhawks. Can anyone please tell me what a chickenhawk is?
2007-03-15 12:26:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
A hawk that eats chickens. It came into popular usage in the U.S. from a Warner Brothers cartoon character, Foghorn Leghorn. Cartoons about this rooster always had a very tiny but aggressive chickenhawk character who was always trying to catch and eat this big, fat rooster with an obnoxious Southern accent.
2007-03-15 13:38:50 · answer #1 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A chickenhawk is a hawk(type of bird) that eats chickens.
I'm not even kidding, that's the truth.
2007-03-15 12:30:16 · answer #2 · answered by mrauscher74 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The term chicken-hawk describes a person who supports a war but refuses to fight in it. Essentially it means "loudmouthed, saber rattling coward". It was originally coined to describe conservatives, who in the 60s supported the Vietnam War but found ways to avoid serving overseas either through deferments or through stateside National Guard duty. Vietnam era chicken-hawks include such notables as: George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, and Newt Gingrich.
Today the term is applied to those who support the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but again refuse to fight or in the case of the Baby Boomer chicken-hawks refuse to allow their children or grandchildren to fight overseas. Chicken-hawks tend to vocally support wars, plaster their cars with patriotic logos, and frown on dissent but when push comes to shove they always find some excuse not to fight in the wars they support. To chicken-hawks wars are fine as long as it is someone else doing the fighting and dieing.
2007-03-15 12:43:15 · answer #3 · answered by Cacaoatl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Someone who supports a war but would never fight in a war.
In the old days a chickenhawk was a homosexual prostitute.
2007-03-15 12:28:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The girl with no name is correct: A chicken hawk is a bird...It got its name from the pioneer days when it would raid the settlers chickens.....Not a very pretty hawk either.
2007-03-15 12:35:14 · answer #5 · answered by Dixie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hawk is a large bird that catches and eats small birds and animals.... we can say a hawk person = it means a politician, who favours the use of military force .
good luck
2007-03-16 00:04:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
someone who wants to start or supports wars with words but is too much of a pu**y to back it up by actually doing the fighting.
2007-03-15 12:28:36 · answer #7 · answered by Dark Helmet 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Somebody who supports other and other peoples children to go to war, but when it comes to themselves and their own children they become wusses. Aka Bush and Chaney.
2007-03-15 12:29:44 · answer #8 · answered by Diana 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
a hawk thats a chicken
2007-03-15 12:28:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A cartoon.
2007-03-15 12:28:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋