Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Timid as a bird; easily frightened.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted.
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- adjective
timid ; easily frightened;chicken-hearted
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Examples
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Delightful haven to pigeon-hearted malefactors -- inconsistent criminals, who fear the puny look of mortal man, and, unabashed, stalk beneath the eternal and the killing frown of God.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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"It's my private opinion, Bates, that you're just as pigeon-hearted as I am!"
The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln Thomas Dixon 1905
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Oh, would that I were once more a Queen, if only for one little hour, and I would take such a vengeance on those accursed jackals who deserted me in my need; that it should only be spoken of in whispers; those woman, those pigeon-hearted half-breeds who suffered themselves to be overcome! 'and she choked in her wrath.
Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890
ruzuzu commented on the word pigeon-hearted
"Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted."
--GNU Webster's 1913
December 17, 2010