Definitions for chicken-hearted

chicken-hearted chick·en-heart·ed

Spelling: [chik-uh n-hahr-tid]
IPA: /ˈtʃɪk ənˈhɑr tɪd/

Chicken-Hearted is a 15 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 1271 anagrams from letters in chicken-hearted (-accdeeehhiknrt).

Definitions for chicken-hearted

adjective

  1. timid; fearful; cowardly.

Origin of chicken-hearted

An Americanism dating back to 1675-85

Examples for chicken-hearted

What a chicken-hearted fellow her father must have thought me!

He is too chicken-hearted for that, or for anything else that requires pluck.

Say, you're not losing your nerve, you chicken-hearted rabbit, are you?

"A man of that stamp is not chicken-hearted," thought Bernardet.

Why, they turned out to be kind of chicken-hearted after all.

There is no use of being timid nor chicken-hearted in the present cause.

A coward is generally a bully, for he who is chicken-hearted may naturally be fowl-mouthed.

That's just like a girl—they're so thin-skinned and chicken-hearted.

They are chicken-hearted fools, who will fight for neither side.

I can't imagine what is the matter with me to-day, I'm as chicken-hearted as a woman.

Word Value for chicken-hearted
Scrable

18

Words with friends

20

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