| 词汇 | chickenhearted |
| 词源 | chickenhearted; chicken-livered. Not nearly a new expres- sion, chickenhearted is first recorded in a 1681 poem by John Dryden: “Where ’tis agreed by bullies chickenhearted/ To fight the ladies first, and then be parted.” Chicken-heart, for a heart, or courage, as weak as a chicken’s, is first attested in 1602. Chicken-livered is a variant of the term, first recorded in Amer- ica in 1857. |
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