chicken-livered / ˈtʃɪk ənˈlɪv ərd /

⚽高中词汇鸡生火鸡生蛋鸡肋

chicken-livered 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective

Informal.

  1. timid; fearful; cowardly.

更多chicken-livered例句

  1. Wearing the right foot of a chicken was considered good luck.
  2. While the chicken today might be the least exotic bird one can think of, it was once a gift that wowed kings.
  3. The chicken, to this day, is valued for its medicinal properties.
  4. In Rome, he writes, the chicken “predicted the outcome of battles.”
  5. Lawler is more interested in the more fascinating story of how the chicken spread.
  6. Squinty could look out, but the slats were as close together as those in a chicken coop, and the little pig could not get out.
  7. So Hettie put the chicken in a cage, with some wool to cover it, and fed it several times every day, till it came to know her.
  8. Lyn was no chicken-hearted weakling, to sit down and weep unavailingly in time of peril.
  9. Not so much, either; 'cause a chicken will stir round an' scratch a livin' out the ground, sooner 'n starve.
  10. There was no one who could make such excellent coffee or fry a chicken so golden brown as she.