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Chicken-hearted

chickenhearted \chickenhearted\, Chicken-hearted \Chick"en-heart`ed\, a. Timid; fearful; cowardly; easily frightened.
--Bunyan.

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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?