UPDATE. Being doubly special in the Age of Trump (by way of Gidget)

From the Online Etymology Dictionary

chick (n.) Look up chick at Dictionary.com mid-14c. shortening of chicken (n.). Extended to human offspring (often in alliterative pairing chick and child) and thence used as a term of endearment. As slang for "young woman" it is first recorded 1927 (in "Elmer Gantry"), supposedly from African-American vernacular. In British use in this sense by c. 1940; popularized by Beatniks late 1950s. Chicken in this sense is from 1711. Sometimes c. 1600-1900 chicken was taken as a plural, chick as a singular (compare child/children) for the domestic fowl.

Original 8/31/2017 post, "Being special in the Age of Trump (by way of Gidget)" starts here.

Photo credit:  Montauk Patch

Montauk 'Prince' Still Wears His Crown.  (The New York Times, 8/30/2017)



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How to speak surfer dude.  (ABC News, 8/24/2001)