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chicken-livered

chicken-livered adjective: cowardly.

Adjective

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

  1. cowardly

Forms of chicken-livered

comparativemore chicken-livered
superlativemost chicken-livered

Questions about chicken-livered

What does chicken-livered mean?
Chicken-livered means cowardly.
What part of speech is chicken-livered?
Chicken-livered is an adjective.

Words near chicken-livered in the dictionary

  1. chicken-hearts
  2. chicken-house
  3. chicken-houses
  4. chicken-in-a-basket circuit
  5. chicken-liver
  6. chicken-livered
  7. chicken-neck
  8. chicken-necked
  9. chicken-necking
  10. chicken-necks
  11. chicken-or-egg question

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