Definitions for white-livered

white-livered white-liv·ered

Spelling: [hwahyt-liv-erd, wahyt-]
IPA: /ˈʰwaɪtˈlɪv ərd, ˈwaɪt-/

White-Livered is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 443 anagrams from letters in white-livered (-deeehiilrtvw).

Definitions for white-livered

adjective

  1. lacking courage; cowardly; lily-livered.
  2. lacking in vitality or spirit; pale; unhealthy.

Origin of white-livered

First recorded in 1540-50

Examples for white-livered

But if that white-livered hound had stood by me, I'd have beaten the lot of you!

They may say what they like, but compared with him, Alp Arslan is a white-livered Giaour.'

And the white-livered accomplice is dithering with funk in there.

His mother was one of them white-livered Lulls, from Pomfret.

I've been damning you for a white-livered Austrian up and down the house.

Stealing the bread out of working men's mouths, you white-livered scab!

Do let us hear, by all means, what the white-livered fellow has to say for himself.

I was a fool ever to have got mixed up with such a white-livered, puling baby.

Men, of all the white-livered traitors as ever was Red Pearce was the worst!

Don't thee be white-livered, Emily, or say owt for which you'll be sorry afterwards.

Word Value for white-livered
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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