chicken-heartedly
See also: chickenheartedly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From chicken-hearted + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]chicken-heartedly (comparative more chicken-heartedly, superlative most chicken-heartedly)
- (derogatory) In a chicken-hearted manner; fearfully
- 2008, Richard F. Miller, In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History, →ISBN, page 294:
- You surely would have abandoned it as chicken-heartedly as you refused to stand up to him in the field.