chicken-hearted

chicken-hearted {adj.}

Cowardly; excessively timid.

"Come on, let's get on that roller coaster," she cried. "Don't be so chicken-hearted."

See: CHICKEN-LIVERED.

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[chicken-livered] {adj.}, {slang}, {colloquial} Easily scared; cowardly. * /Joe sure is a chicken-livered guy./ See: [CHICKEN-HEARTED]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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