chicken-hearted

See also: chickenhearted

English
WOTD – 17 January 2012

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Adjective

chicken-hearted (comparative more chicken-hearted, superlative most chicken-hearted)

  1. not brave; lacking courage; cowardly
    These chicken-hearted bosses always seem to give in at the first sign of a strike.

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