lily-livered \| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\adjective Etymology:lily (I) + livered; from the whiteness of the lily and from the former belief that the choleric temperament depends on the body's producing large quantities of yellow bile : lacking courage : cowardly < lily-livered poltroons lacking even the … courage of a rabbit — P.G.Wodehouse >