a wordwing
also: chicken wing · wings
An order is counted, not weighed: six, ten, twenty, fifty. 'A dozen' means twelve pieces, not twelve wings.
A chicken's wing, and the pieces it becomes. Off the bird it runs drumette, flat and tip; a kitchen cuts it at both joints and usually throws the tip into stock, so what a menu calls a wing is one of two pieces. Order twenty and twenty pieces arrive, roughly ten birds' worth of one wing each.
On a menu the word slid from the whole limb to the pieces it gets cut into, so one wing off the bird sells as two or three wings. Inference — the counting unit followed the knife, not the bird. Tradition
How it is done Tradition
Say the number, then the sauce, then bone-in or boneless, then the dip. A counter that asks 'flats or drums?' is offering something most places will not.
The particulars
| part of speech | noun |
|---|---|
| region | The United States |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
Who it runs with
Who talks about it
Where we got it
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.