Meaning of WHITE-LIVERED
| Pronunciation: | | 'wIt 'livurd
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| | Definition: | | [adj] (informal) easily frightened |
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| | Synonyms: | | chicken, chickenhearted, coward(a), cowardly, fearful, lily-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \White"-liv`ered\, a.
Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous;
dastardly.
They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights.
--Latimer.
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