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Lily-livered

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






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"Lily-livered" Quotes from Famous Books



... as Yorke hurried up to help him; "you are a good plucked one, you are; you shall keep the lodge, if you will, instead of that lily-livered scoundrel who was too frightened to move. Oh, I ask pardon; you are a gentleman, ...
— Bred in the Bone • James Payn



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