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61funky — I adj Informal. frightened, fearful, fearsome, scared,afraid, Archaic. affrighted; terrified, panic stricken, terror stricken; cowardly, craven, pusillanimous, white livered, lily livered. See afraid(def.1). II adj Slang. evil smelling, ill… …
62chickenhearted — adjective easily frightened • Syn: ↑chicken, ↑lily livered, ↑white livered, ↑yellow, ↑yellow bellied • Similar to: ↑cowardly, ↑fearful …
63yellow-bellied — adjective easily frightened • Syn: ↑chicken, ↑chickenhearted, ↑lily livered, ↑white livered, ↑yellow • Similar to: ↑cowardly, ↑fearful …
64fearful — a. 1. Afraid, apprehensive, haunted with fear. 2. Timid, timorous, nervous, faint hearted, chicken hearted, white livered, cowardly, pusillanimous, showing the white feather, easily frightened. 3. Terrible, dreadful, frightful, dire, direful. 4.… …
65cowardly — I. a. Pusillanimous, dastardly, craven, fearful, timorous, timid, coward, recreant, base, faint hearted, chicken hearted white livered, showing the white feather. II. ad. Pusillanimously, timorously, basely, meanly, cravenly …
66Cowardly — Cow ard*ly, a. 1. Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless. [1913 Webster] The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting …
67wishy-washy — adj 1. weak, thin, watery, runny, watered down, diluted, cut, stretched, attenuated, (of liquor) Scot. shilpit; pappy, paplike, milk and water, soppy, sodden; insipid, jejune, pallid, Sl. nothing, Sl. blah; bland, tasteless, flavorless, flat,… …
68dog — ‘Dog’ is used vocatively in two distinct ways. It is either an insulting term of contempt, or it is almost a compliment, implying that the man addressed is a jolly fellow. As an insult, ‘dog’ has been in use since at least the fourteenth… …
69stupid — This word is a frequent element in a vocative group of the type ‘you stupid fool’, but it is also used alone. ‘Don’t do that, stupid,’ is a fairly mild utterance, used especially by children to each other, and likely to produce the retort… …
70milk-liv|ered — «MIHLK LIHV uhrd», adjective. cowardly; white livered: »Milk liver d man! That bear st a cheek for blows (Shakespeare) …
