1. A whole bird, roasted until the skin achieves a taut, mahogany lacquer, distinguished by a posterior silhouette of such confident breadth that plating it breast-forward feels, to the trained eye, like a missed opportunity.
2.colloq. Rested on a rack, back to the room, the drumsticks splayed in a posture that can only be described as settled. She did not come to the table to be ignored.
In a sentence:
"The roast chicken came out of the oven so thiccc that the rack held its breath. The resting juices pooled in the back, as they always do, where the weight lives."
Etymology:
From Old English rostan (to roast, via heat on a spit) and Old English cicen (young fowl), the latter from Proto-Germanic kiukinam, related to cock and hen by obvious family resemblance. The bird has been prepared this way since at least the 14th century, which means humanity spent seven hundred years perfecting a silhouette and only recently developed the vocabulary to describe it correctly.
Yes. Roast Chicken was admitted to the Thiccctionary on September 13, 2026 and filed in the Foods of Substance section. The ruling on file: Admitted, with a footnote. Every subject in the catalogue is judged on its curves, not its size.
What makes a roast chicken thiccc?
Rested on a rack, back to the room, the drumsticks splayed in a posture that can only be described as settled. She did not come to the table to be ignored.
Is "thiccc" spelled with three c's?
Yes. The Thiccctionary house spelling uses three c's, distinguishing the editorial register from the colloquial "thicc" (two c's) and standard "thick" (one c).
