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chickenhearted

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

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chickenhearted

a. (alternative form of chicken-hearted English) alt. (alternative form of chicken-hearted English)

WordNet
chickenhearted

adj. easily frightened [syn: chicken, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied]

Usage examples of "chickenhearted".

Wendell Junior would be particularly bemused by his father's chickenhearted stumbling.

But, thinking the matter over as he guided the thrombotic car deeper and deeper into the blackness of the hills, Rudy couldn't imagine any gang admitting a member as essentially chickenhearted as Jim Carrow.

As long as he don’t try to play off any more of his tricks on your wife, and he’s such a chickenhearted fellow I don’t suppose he would dare to, now that he knows you’ve smoked him.

It's the cunnarte gisuh sharums," he blurted in Namerique: the phrase translated into Sponglish as chickenhearted little darkies.