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White-livered

adjective
1.
Easily frightened.  Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied.





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"White-livered" Quotes from Famous Books



... I tell you, you snuffling, whimpering, white-livered cur!' he said. 'Those men have got away with ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson
... that white-livered hypocrite, it is useless for me to try to convince you. But, if you must know it,—though, mind you, I tell you this only because you compel me,—I once interfered, because my conscience forced me to do so, in a very disgraceful love-affair of his in Denmark. ...
— Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen


Words linked to "White-livered" :   cowardly, fearful, colloquialism, yellow-bellied


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