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- chickenhearted chickenhearted, Chicken-hearted Chick"en-heart`ed, a. Timid; fearful; cowardly; easily frightened. --Bunyan. [1913 Webster]
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chickenhearted — adjective Date: 1653 timid, cowardly < too…chickenhearted to accompany me in this perilous undertaking Washington Irving > … New Collegiate Dictionary
chickenhearted — adjective timid and easily frightened … Wiktionary
chickenhearted — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Ignobly lacking in courage: cowardly, craven, dastardly, faint hearted, lily livered, pusillanimous, unmanly. Slang: chicken, gutless, yellow, yellow bellied. See FEAR … English dictionary for students
chickenhearted — adjective easily frightened • Syn: ↑chicken, ↑lily livered, ↑white livered, ↑yellow, ↑yellow bellied • Similar to: ↑cowardly, ↑fearful … Useful english dictionary
Chicken-hearted — chickenhearted chickenhearted, Chicken hearted Chick en heart ed, a. Timid; fearful; cowardly; easily frightened. Bunyan. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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afraid — Synonyms and related words: abulic, afeared, aghast, anxious, apologetic, apprehensive, averse, backward, cautious, chary, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, craven, daunted, dismayed, edgy, faint, fainthearted, fear struck, feared … Moby Thesaurus
chicken — Synonyms and related words: Ancona, Andalusian, Australorp, Bantam, Brahma, Campine, Cochin, Cornish, Cornish hen, Hamburg, Hershey bar, Leghorn, Lord Fauntleroy, Milquetoast, New Hampshire red, Orpington, Percy, Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island red,… … Moby Thesaurus
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cowed — Synonyms and related words: afraid, aghast, appalled, ashen, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, blanched, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, daunted, deadly pale, dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, frozen, funking, funky, gray with… … Moby Thesaurus
