chicken-hearted

See also: chickenhearted

English

WOTD – 17 January 2012

Pronunciation

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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.

Translations

lacking courage

• Finnish: jänishousuinen
• German: ängstlich (de), furchtsam (de)
• Hungarian: nyúlszívű (hu), gyáva (hu)
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• Ido: poltrona (io)
• Spanish: gallina (es)
• Swedish: harhjärtad, feg (sv)

See also

• Thesaurus:cowardly