Chickenhearted

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  chickenhearted \chickenhearted\, Chicken-hearted
  \Chick"en-heart`ed\, a.
     Timid; fearful; cowardly; easily frightened. --Bunyan.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  chickenhearted
       adj : easily frightened [syn: {chicken}, {lily-livered}, {white-livered},
              {yellow}, {yellow-bellied}]