| 单词 | yellow-livered |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow-livered yellow-livered adj. †(a) (apparently) jaundiced (obsolete rare); (b) U.S. colloquial lacking in courage; faint-hearted; cowardly; cf. sense A. 3b, white-livered adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective] arghc885 heartlessOE bloodlessc1225 coward1297 faintc1300 nesha1382 comfortless1387 pusillanimousa1425 faint-heartedc1440 unheartyc1440 cowardous1480 hen-hearteda1529 cowardish1530 feigningc1540 white-livered1546 cowardly1551 faceless1567 pusillanime1570 liver-hearted1571 cowish1579 cowardise1582 coward-like1587 faint-heart1590 courageless1593 sheep-like1596 white-hearted1598 milky1602 milk-livered1608 undaring1611 lily-livereda1616 yarrow1616 flightful1626 chicken-hearted1629 poltroon1649 cow-hearted1660 whey-blooded1675 unbravea1681 nimble-heeled1719 dunghill1775 shrimp-hearted1796 chicken-livered1804 white-feathered1816 pluckless1821 chicken-spirited1822 milk-blooded1822 cowardy1836 yellow1856 yellow-livered1857 putty-hearted1872 uncourageous1878 chicken1883 piker1901 yellow-bellied1907 manso1932 scaredy-cat1933 chickenshit1940 cold-footed1944 1835 Figaro in London 28 Mar. 51/2 An ugly, sallow, yellow livered, fat fellow. 1857 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 4 Nov. [He] was pacing up and down his cell, cursing the ‘great old kicked [sic]’ for a pusillanimous, chicken-hearted, yellow-livered quack. 1894 Columbus (Indiana) Daily Herald 10 Aug. Edinburg and all the inhabitants thereof are being roundly damned for having ‘cowardly souls’ by the baseball cranks who left here yesterday... Down wid 'em, the yellow-livered sassennachs [sic]. 1935 S. Lewis It can't happen Here xv. 156 The meanest, lowest, cowardliest gang of yellow-livered, back-slapping, hypocritical gun-toters. 2015 W. W. Johnstone & J. A. Johnstone Hell's Half Acre: Butcher of Baxter Pass v. 42 Bass had said he'd be danged if he'd be giving any orders and cowering with some yellow-livered general. < as lemmas |
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