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ˈhen-ˌhearted, a.
Timorous or cowardly, faint-hearted, chicken-hearted, pusillanimous.
1522Skelton Why not to Court 164 They kepe them in theyr holdes, Lyke henherted cokoldes. 1638H. Rider tr. Horace's Epodes xvi, The hen-hearted and despairing wretch. 1708Motteux Rabelais iv. lxvi. (1737) 272 The Hen-hearted Rascal is so cowardly. 1815Scott Guy M. xxviii, Are you turned hen-hearted, Jack? |