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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I overheard conversation where someone referred to a “molten chicken” rather than molting chicken. (Though he may have said molting and it came out sounding like molten) Nevertheless, I though it might work as an eggcorn. I mean, when a chicken loses its feathers, it looks like it’s melting and molten things (liquid hot magma for example) tend to be melting. In reasoning it out, you could say the chicken was too hot (though I don’t really know why they molt) so it “melts”, just like how metals and rocks are referred to as molten when they become hot and change physical properties. Do chickens and volcanos have that much in common or am I just crazy?
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