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chicken-heartedly

chicken-heartedly adverb: in a chicken-hearted manner; fearfully.

Adverb

chicken-heartedly (comparative more chicken-heartedly, superlative most chicken-heartedly)

  1. (derogatory) In a chicken-hearted manner; fearfully
    • You surely would have abandoned it as chicken-heartedly as you refused to stand up to him in the field.2008, Richard F. Miller, In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History, →ISBN, page 294

Forms of chicken-heartedly

comparativemore chicken-heartedly
superlativemost chicken-heartedly

Origin of chicken-heartedly

From chicken-hearted + -ly.

Questions about chicken-heartedly

What does chicken-heartedly mean?
Chicken-heartedly means in a chicken-hearted manner; fearfully.
What part of speech is chicken-heartedly?
Chicken-heartedly is an adverb.

Words near chicken-heartedly in the dictionary

  1. chicken-fried steak
  2. chicken-fried steaks
  3. chicken-hazard
  4. chicken-heart
  5. chicken-hearted
  6. chicken-heartedly
  7. chicken-heartedness
  8. chicken-hearts
  9. chicken-house
  10. chicken-houses
  11. chicken-in-a-basket circuit

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