Meanings
- CockneyslangMental, crazy, insane.
Gave up and moved back home. Since then house prices have gone chicken oriental so the likelihood of me moving into my own place is very small.
2003 November 24, Beer Monster, “Re: just curious.........”, in alt.culture.ukc.misc (Usenet)1 more example
Tom shivered. This sounded like a comment of the sort that might first alert a husband to his wife’s rankling insanity. ‘Our new family?’ he echoed. ¶ ‘Yes. Don’t look worried – I haven’t gone chicken oriental. I made a simple, practical decision.[…]’
2008, Sophie Hannah, The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets: Short Stories, London: Sort of Books, →ISBN, page 59Synonyms: 5150, bananas, barking, barking mad, fey, buggish, buggy, bughouse
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chicken oriental. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chicken%20oriental
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