chickenhearted

2 definitions found

chickenhearted - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

chickenhearted - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  chickenhearted
      adj 1: easily frightened [syn: chicken, chickenhearted,
             lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-  bellied
             ]