| 单词 | chicken-minded |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschicken-minded C3. General use in various types of compound alluding to the supposed foolish or cowardly character of a chicken, as in chicken-minded, etc.Recorded earliest in chicken heart n. (first attested 1602).See also chicken-hearted adj. (1629), chicken-brained adj. (1678), chicken-livered adj. (1804), chicken-spirited adj. (1822), chicken-headed adj. (1842), chickenhead n. (1903), chicken liver n. 2 (1930), chickenshit adj. 3 (1940), chicken run n. 2 (1976), chicken run n. 3 (1995). ΚΠ 1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. C4 Such Chicken-heartes (and yet great quarrellers). 1629 G. Chapman tr. Funerall Oration in Iustification Nero 6 As red hayre on a man is a signe of trechery, what tis in a woman, let the sweet musique of rime inspire vs; a soft hayre chicken-hearted; a harsh hayre churlish natur'd; a flaxen hayre foolish brain'd. 1842 J. F. Cooper Two Admirals II. xi. 166 Was the prize in sight, or were you too chicken-headed to look? 1917 Sat. Evening Post 21 Apr. 121/2 The urge of this chicken-minded youngster is simply vanity. 2004 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 23 Oct. b8/2 You could forget that you're a big-boned, sort of shy chokester surrounded by chicken-headed girls and just assume..that you have style, grace and nerves of steel. < as lemmas |
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