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What is "faint-hearted"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
faint-hearted
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If predators do not oblige, the pests are picked off and squashed - not a job for the faint-hearted!
▪ Neither Baron Korf nor Iakov Rostovtsev owned serfs, but the one was faint-hearted and the other unimaginative.
▪ None of this is for the faint-hearted.
▪ Not a city for the lily-livered or faint-hearted.
▪ Not that it is a post for the faint-hearted, even today.
▪ Playing foreign markets is not for the faint-hearted.
▪ The coastguard duties included patrolling paths at the top of high and sheer cliffs - not a job for the faint-hearted.
▪ This is not an investment for the faint-hearted.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Faint-hearted

Faint-hearted \Faint"-heart`ed\, a. Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.

Fear not, neither be faint-hearted.
--Is. vii. 4. -- Faint"-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Faint"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
faint-hearted

"cowardly, timorous," c.1400, from faint (adj.) + hearted. Related: Faint-heartedly; faint-heartedness; faint-heart.

Wiktionary
faint-hearted

a. Lacking courage; timid

Usage examples of "faint-hearted".

And if this thing had happened to Robert Lamhorn, he would have had a thought far beyond the horizon of faint-hearted Bibbs's thoughts.

The spectators, disappointed at the tameness of the contest, blew off steam by shouting to their champion to get to work, and jeering at the Sub's wary and seemingly faint-hearted tactics.

Consider his position, you faint-hearted and self-pitying young men who think you have a tough row to hoe just because, when you pay your evening visit with the pound box of candy under your arm, you see the handsome sophomore from Yale sitting beside her on the porch, playing the ukulele.

They had volunteered for the team and successfully passed the tests to weed out the temperamentally unfit or faint-hearted.