Definition of lily-livered Lily-livered
lil•y•liv•ered
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What does lily-livered mean?
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| lily-livered - easily frightened | ||
| chicken, chickenhearted, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied | ||
| cowardly, fearful lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley | ||
| colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- lily-livered (a.)
White-livered; cowardly.
