Chicken-and-eggish

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

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Adjective

1
Characteristic of a chicken-or-egg question; involving a dispute as to which of two interdependent things happened first. informal, rare

Etymology

From chicken and egg + -ish.

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