a. [f. prec. + -ED2.] Timorous and cowardly as a chicken, faint-hearted.
1681. Dryden, Prol. Sp. Friar, 41. Where ’tis agreed by bullies chicken-hearted To fright the ladies first, and then be parted.
1684. Bunyan, Pilgr., II. 117. He was himself so Chickin-hearted a Man.
1886. Stevenson, Treasure Isl., I. iv. 30. Small thanks to you big, hulking, chicken-hearted men.
