Definition of "chicken-hearted" []

• Lacking courage; cowardly. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And after this I shall always query that phrase, most ancient in our language -- "chicken-hearted.""
• "The whole British sitting volleyball squad are a bunch of yellow-bellied moaners, and Martine Wright, wife, mother, budding Paralympic athlete, the worst injured female survivor of Britain's most terrible terrorist act ever, what a lily-livered, chicken-hearted coward she is."
• "(Unfortunately, the journal editor was chicken-hearted and changed the sub-title to "How Well Do They Fit Out of Sample?")"