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chickenadjective having or showing a shameful lack of couragetoo chicken to go through with the stunt chicken-livered, chickenhearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered(archaic), poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, spineless, unheroic, yellow diffident, fainthearted, fearful, timid, timorousafraid, frightened, scaredcareful, cautious, warybashful, coy, shyfeeble, soft, unmanly, weak brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, gutsy, hardy, heroic(also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous audacious, bold, brazen, cheeky, nervyplucky, spirited, spunkydetermined, resolute so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attentionjust concentrate on the important duties of the job and forget about the chicken stuff de minimis, footling, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, measly, Mickey Mouse, minute, negligible, niggling, no-account, nominal, paltry, peanut, petty, picayune, piddling, piddly, piffling, pimping, slight, trifling, trivial inferior, meanimperceptible, inappreciablelittle, puny, tinyhairsplitting, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibblingone-horse, small-fry, two-bit big, consequential, considerable, important, material, significant serious, substantial, weightyeventful, momentous, pivotalconspicuous, noteworthy, outstanding, prominent, remarkable, strikingappreciable, discernible(also discernable), measurable a person who shows a shameful lack of courage in the face of dangera staunch hawk during the drumbeat for war, he proved to be a chicken when it came to actually fighting it coward, craven, cur, dastard, funk, poltroon, recreant, sissy defeatist, quittercream puff, milquetoast, pushover, pussy(slang), weakling, wimpcaitiff, snake, sneakostrich, scaramouch(or scaramouche) hero, stalwart, valiant daredevil before the 12th century |