chicken-hearted

See also chickenhearted

English

WOTD – 17 January 2012    

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.

Translations

lacking courage

• Finnish: jänishousuinen (fi)

• German: ängstlich (de), furchtsam (de)
• Spanish: gallina (es)

See also

• Wikisaurus:cowardly