Chickenfeed (Noun)
Meaning
A trifling sum of money.
Classification
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession.
Examples
- The company offered him a salary of fifty thousand dollars, which was chickenfeed compared to what he was making at his old job.
- She thought the five dollars she found on the street was chickenfeed, but it was enough to buy her lunch.
- The cost of the new smartphone was chickenfeed to the wealthy businessman, who bought it on a whim.
- The artist was paid a mere hundred dollars for her painting, which she considered chickenfeed for the amount of work she put into it.
- The billionaire philanthropist donated a million dollars to charity, which was chickenfeed to him but a fortune to the recipients.