Usually means: Lacking courage, timid, easily frightened.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. chicken-livered: Merriam-Webster
  2. chicken-livered: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chicken-livered: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chicken-livered, chicken-livered: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chicken-livered: Wordnik
  6. chicken-livered: Wiktionary
  7. chicken-livered: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. chicken-livered: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. chicken-livered: Dictionary.com
  10. chicken-livered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chicken-livered: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chicken-livered: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ adjective:  cowardly

Similar:
chicken-hearted, lily-livered, milk-livered, white-livered, pigeon-livered, chickenhearted, liver-hearted, liver-faced, timid, hen-hearted, more...

Opposite:
courageous, brave, fearless, bold

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Similar:
chicken-hearted, lily-livered, milk-livered, white-livered, pigeon-livered, chickenhearted, liver-hearted, liver-faced, timid, hen-hearted, more...

Opposite:
courageous, brave, fearless, bold



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