The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chicken-hearted
chickenhearted \chickenhearted\, Chicken-hearted
\Chick"en-heart`ed\, a.
Timid; fearful; cowardly; easily frightened.
--Bunyan.
Wiktionary
chicken-hearted
a. not brave; lacking courage; cowardly
Usage examples of "chicken-hearted".
Aye, that is Blood gauming up the Scuppers, but is the Captain chicken-hearted?