Usually means: Lacking courage, easily frightened, timid.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word chicken-hearted:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. chicken-hearted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. chicken-hearted: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. chicken-hearted, chicken-hearted: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chicken-hearted: Wordnik
  5. chicken-hearted: Wiktionary
  6. chicken-hearted: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. chicken-hearted: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. chicken-hearted: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Chicken-hearted, chicken-hearted: Dictionary.com
  10. Chicken-hearted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. chicken-hearted: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Chicken-hearted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. chicken-hearted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. Chicken-hearted: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. chicken-hearted: FreeDictionary.org
  16. chicken-hearted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chicken-hearted: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chicken-hearted: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chicken-hearted)

▸ adjective:  Not brave; lacking courage; cowardly.

Similar:
chickenhearted, chicken-livered, hen-hearted, liver-hearted, lily-livered, cow-hearted, cowhearted, timid, white-livered, pigeon-livered, more...

Opposite:
brave, courageous, heroic, valorous, dauntless

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Similar:
chickenhearted, chicken-livered, hen-hearted, liver-hearted, lily-livered, cow-hearted, cowhearted, timid, white-livered, pigeon-livered, more...

Opposite:
brave, courageous, heroic, valorous, dauntless



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