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单词 cow-hearted
释义 cow-ˈhearted, ppl. a.
[cf. prec.]
Faint-hearted, timorous, cowardly.
1660H. Adis Fannaticks Mite *iv a, It will corroborate the Cow-hearted.1680R. Mansell Narr. Popish Plot 16 She [Lady Powis] struck him gently with her Fan on the hand, calling him Cow-hearted Fellow.1791Pop. Tales Germans II. 147 ‘Messmate, dost thou see any thing?’ cried the cow-hearted pilot from the coach-box.1881Cheq. Career 250 ‘You cow-hearted..cow-built wretch [a horse]!’
Hence cow-ˈheartedness.
1718Motteux Quix. (1733) III. 46 Valour lies just half way between Rashness and Cow-heartedness.
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