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What does chicken-hearted mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word chicken-hearted? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. not brave; lacking courage; cowardly
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It is an unalloyed good, and it is sad to see our politicians responding with such chicken-hearted paranoia.
Obviously, David had noticed our unexpected visitors at the river and made for home as fast as his chicken-hearted legs could carry him.
What a chicken-hearted fellow her father must have thought me!
It is very hard to be a Vajrayana practitioner with a timid, chicken-hearted attitude toward life.
Why, they turned out to be kind of chicken-hearted after all.
A coward is generally a bully, for he who is chicken-hearted may naturally be fowl-mouthed.

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