chicken-livered
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of chicken-livered
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Rainie said, “He’s chicken-livered, that’s what it is.”
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
The stranger muttered something about a chicken-livered population, and strolled out.
From Taking Chances by Clarence L. Cullen
You would have gone, then, to a man of sawdust, a chicken-livered bungler!
From Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo by Will Grefé
He thinks me a chicken-livered old coward and I know much more about him than I knew before; and we are at peace.
From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick
"The pair of you are too chicken-livered for us."
From The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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