Chick
Middle English: abbreviation of chicken.
wiktionary
From Middle English chicke, chike, variation of chiken(“chicken", also "chick”), from Old English ċicen, ċycen(“chicken”). Sense of "young woman" dates to at least 1860 (compare chit(“young, pert woman”)). More at chicken.
From Hindi चिक़f(ciq) and Urdu چق f(ciq), ultimately from Persian چق f(ciq).
etymonline
chick (n.)
"the young of the domestic hen," also of some other birds, mid-14c., probably originally a shortening of chicken (n.).
Extended 14c. to human offspring, "person of tender years" (often in alliterative pairing chick and child) and thence used as a term of endearment. As slang for "young woman" it is first recorded 1927 (in "Elmer Gantry"), supposedly from African-American vernacular. In British use in this sense by c. 1940; popularized by Beatniks late 1950s (chicken in this sense is by 1860). Sometimes c. 1600-1900 chicken was taken as a plural, chick as a singular (compare child/children) for the domestic fowl.
