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chicken-livered
[ chik-uhn-liv-erd ]
adjective
, Informal.
- timid; fearful; cowardly.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chicken-livered1
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Example Sentences
Or are you afraid—afraid even yet, oh, very chicken-livered lover—that behind the beauty of Naples you may find the filth?
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He thinks me a chicken-livered old coward and I know much more about him than I knew before; and we are at peace.
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I went, and this is what he says: 'The fool that defended me is a chicken-livered son of a—and all the rest of it,' he says.
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A weak-kneed, chicken-livered, white-bellied old bullfrog that squeaks and jumps, plunk!
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Come back here, you couple of chicken-livered cowards, and I'll thrash the two of ye!
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