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yellow-bellied

a. 1 Of an animal or reptile having a yellow underside or belly. 2 (context figuratively English) uncourageous, cowardly.

WordNet
yellow-bellied

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

Usage examples of "yellow-bellied".

Since red-bellied toads and yellow-bellied toads are smaller than common toads, and he reckons the length of the flat bodies one at five centimeters, two at five and a half, and one at six, they must have been anouras and not common toads, which sometimes grow to a length of fifteen centimeters.

Yossarian did have brains enough and was, and the only thing that stopped him from abandoning his post under fire and scurrying back through the crawlway like a yellow-bellied rat was his unwillingness to entrust the evasive action out of the target area to anybody else.

I can identify a split infinitive or dangling participle or hyphenated neologism, but I'm not equipped to spot a tufted titmouse or yellow-bellied sapsucker.

Don't be a yellow-bellied grease money like me and lose the one woman who might have made you happy!

Said I come from a line of yellow-bellied grease monkeys and he wanted better for his baby girl.

So we bared our teeth, sank them in deep, and they ran screaming like yellow-bellied ponces, disappearing as quick as you like.

With nimble footwork he kept the trunk between Anna and himself, until at last she stopped, gasping and redfaced, and panted at him, Come out, you yellow-bellied black-faced apology for a blue-testicled baboon!

If I bought a new edition, I'd feel I was being unfaithful to my old friend the yellow-bellied sapsucker, which has been split into three different species.