I can be a bird, but I’m also what you do when you’re scared. I can be scrambled, or just plain fried. What am I?
Category: Wordplay · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Consider both culinary and emotional contexts.
Answer
A chicken
Explanation
The riddle plays on the word 'chicken' implying both the bird and the idiom of being 'chicken' as in scared, leading to a humorous confusion.
This is a expert wordplay riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is A chicken.
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