Definitions for chicken-livered

chicken-livered chick·en-liv·ered

Spelling: [chik-uh n-liv-erd]
IPA: /ˈtʃɪk ənˈlɪv ərd/

Chicken-Livered 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 730 anagrams from letters in chicken-livered (-ccdeeehiiklnrv).

Definitions for chicken-livered

adjective

  1. timid; fearful; cowardly.

Origin of chicken-livered

An Americanism dating back to 1870-75

Examples for chicken-livered

Come back here, you couple of chicken-livered cowards, and I'll thrash the two of ye!

A weak-kneed, chicken-livered, white-bellied old bullfrog that squeaks and jumps, plunk!

I went, and this is what he says: 'The fool that defended me is a chicken-livered son of a—and all the rest of it,' he says.

He thinks me a chicken-livered old coward and I know much more about him than I knew before; and we are at peace.

Word Value for chicken-livered
Scrable

18

Words with friends

20

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