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Definition of Chickenhearted
1. Adjective. Easily frightened.
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Cowardly, Fearful
Derivative terms: Chicken
Definition of Chickenhearted
1. a. Timid; fearful; cowardly.
Definition of Chickenhearted
1. Adjective. (alternative form of chicken-hearted) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chickenhearted
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chickenhearted
Literary usage of Chickenhearted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of Germany: 9 A.D. to 1871 A.D. by Ernest Flagg Henderson (1906)
"... know a more chickenhearted man than you.” Russia, as it turned out, had enough
to do to attend to her own troubled affairs, and the same was true of ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1879)
"We say of men or children who are strong and courageous, they are lion-hearted;
we say of those who are opposite, they are chickenhearted; and the terms ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"... chickenhearted, S. This, especially from the appearance which the word has
assumed in K., might at first seem to be formed from rh'v.krn. ..."
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