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white-livered

Pronunciation:  'wIt 'livurd

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

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\White"-liv`ered\, a.
Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous;
dastardly.

      They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights.
                                               --Latimer.

 

 

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