chicken-hearted
timid; fearful; cowardly.
Origin of chicken-hearted
1Other words from chicken-hearted
- chick·en-heart·ed·ly, adverb
- chick·en-heart·ed·ness, noun
Words Nearby chicken-hearted
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How to use chicken-hearted in a sentence
Lyn was no chicken-hearted weakling, to sit down and weep unavailingly in time of peril.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairThere was a rush of patriots to Paris, and another rush of the chicken-hearted to the coast and the frontier.
The Isle of Unrest | Henry Seton MerrimanI forgive Bellecour, who is only a chicken-hearted fellow anyway!
Brother Jacques (Novels of Paul de Kock, Volume XVII) | Charles Paul de KockBut others don't know you as well as I do, and there's plenty of them would think you were chicken-hearted.
Grif | B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) FarjeonWhat a chicken-hearted fellow her father must have thought me!
The Mystery of the Hidden Room | Marion Harvey
British Dictionary definitions for chicken-hearted
easily frightened; cowardly
Derived forms of chicken-hearted
- chicken-heartedly, adverb
- chicken-heartedness, noun
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