chicken-fighters

chicken-fighters
\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ noun plural also chicken-fights
Etymology: so called from a children's game in which each of two participants tries to decapitate the other's flower by pulling on the stem of his own, one spurred petal (likened to a cock's spur) of which is interlocked with that of his adversary's flower
: the flowers of several violets (as Viola cucullata) one petal of which is spurred

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