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chicken-hearted
[ chik-uhn-hahr-tid ]
adjective
, Informal.
- timid; fearful; cowardly.
chicken-hearted
adjective
- easily frightened; cowardly
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Derived Forms
- ˌchicken-ˈheartedness, noun
- ˌchicken-ˈheartedly, adverb
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Other Words From
- chicken-hearted·ly adverb
- chicken-hearted·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chicken-hearted1
An Americanism dating back to 1675–85
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Example Sentences
Lyn was no chicken-hearted weakling, to sit down and weep unavailingly in time of peril.
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There was a rush of patriots to Paris, and another rush of the chicken-hearted to the coast and the frontier.
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I forgive Bellecour, who is only a chicken-hearted fellow anyway!
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But others don't know you as well as I do, and there's plenty of them would think you were chicken-hearted.
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What a chicken-hearted fellow her father must have thought me!
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