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Pigeon-hearted   Listen
adjective
Pigeon-hearted  adj.  Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pigeon-hearted" Quotes from Famous Books



... up our former simile, (which we think a taking one, though, alas! it is not our own,) and delineate, by one expressive phrase, a mouldering, rage kept in check; by the constitutional cowardice on which it is superinduced—then are we a pigeon-hearted hawk, wanting only the courage to be desperately cross! (An impertinent friend, who has been looking over our shoulder, suggests that ourselves, under the two above-named phrases, would be better adumbrated by the figure of a dish of skimmed ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various



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