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lily-livered

Pronunciation:  'lilee'livurd

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 Definition: [adj]  (informal) easily frightened
 
 Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, coward(a), cowardly, fearful, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Lil"y-liv`ered\ (-l[i^]v`[~e]rd), a.
White-livered; cowardly.

 
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 Related Terms: afraid, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, craven, daunted, dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, funking, funky, gutless, henhearted, intimidated, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, overtimid, overtimorous, panicky, panic-prone, pigeonhearted, poltroonish, pusillanimous, rabbity, sissified, sissy, soft, spunkless, timid, timorous, unmanly, unmanned, weak, weakhearted, weak-kneed, white-livered, yellow
 

 

 

 

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