white-livered

white-livered
    adj 1: easily frightened [syn: {chicken}, {chickenhearted},
           {lily-livered}, {white-livered}, {yellow}, {yellow-
           bellied}]
    

White-livered \White"-liv`ered\, a.
   Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous;
   dastardly.

   Syn: lily-livered. [1913 Webster]

              They must not be milksops, nor white-livered
              knights.                            --Latimer.
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