chicken feed

plural chicken feeds · alternative chickenfeed · alternative chicken-feed · alternative chicken feet

1. countableuncountableFood (usually grain) given to poultry.

   Synonyms: chicken scratch, scratch

2. countableidiomaticuncountableA very small or insignificant quantity, especially of money.

   Near-synonyms: pocket change, pocket money, chump change

   2 more examples

   "Some of them old skinflints has no heart Al but why should I fight with a old man over chicken feed like $10?"

   1916, Ring Lardner Sr., chapter 3, in You Know Me Al

   The 20 per cent cut is chicken feed compared to us having to pay Moore compensation for the remaining 16 months […]

   1998 August 28, Seak Poh Leong, The New Paper, Singapore, page 64

   Synonyms: pocket change, pocket money, chump change

3. SinglishcountableuncountableA trivial or easy task; a piece of cake.

   BMT [Basic Military Training] was literally ‘chicken feet’ compared to Officer Cadet School (OCS) […]

   1994, C. S. Chong, NS: An Air-Level Story, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, →ISBN, page 16