Chickening

Synonyms for "chickening" (449 found)

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Closest matches (90)

biddy chickenhearted spring chicken afraid ancona andalusian anemic asthenic auntie australorp aviation badge baby back out badge bantam banty bar barn-door fowl barnyard fowl bi-guy

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Noun(16 words)

coward beautiful man biddy bird bottler brick caitiff candy-arse candy-ass centerfold chicken liver chickenshit chook cocktail coistril cowardy custard

Adjective(17 words)

afeared alarmed anxious apprehensive backboneless base bitch-ass boneless caitiff candy-assed chicken-hearted chicken-livered chickenshit courageless cowardish cowardly cowardy

Adjective(1 words)

chickenhearted

Strong matches (135)

cowed craven cream puff crybaby dastard daunted debilitated desert under fire dindon dismayed domestic fowl doormat drake drooping droopy duck duckling dull dull tool dunghill fowl

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Adjective(24 words)

cowhearted cowish craven cravenhearted cringey dastard dastardly dickless dough-faced fainthearted fearful fraidy frightened frit gizzardless gruesome gutless heartless hen-hearted horrified

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invalorous invertebrate kiasi lily-livered

Noun(14 words)

craven crybaby dog dreamboat fox fraidy cat funker gallus gallus game of chicken gutless wonder hunk invertebrate jessie lady-killer

Adjective(1 words)

lily-livered

Related words (224)

limber limp listless lord fauntleroy lose courage lustless marrowless meek soul milk-livered milksop milksoppish milksoppy milquetoast mollycoddle mouse mousy muliebrous namby pamby namby-pamby nance

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nancy nebbish nerveless new hampshire red nonentity oak leaf oie old woman old-womanish organization insignia orpington overseas bar overtimid overtimorous panic-prone panicky pansy pantywaist parachute badge partlet partridge patch pathic percy pheasant pigeon pigeonhearted pigeonneau pip pithless plymouth rock poltroon poltroonish pooped poulard poulet poult poultry powerless prissy pullet punk pushover pusillanimous quail queen queer quitter rabbity rhode island red roaster rock cornish rooster rubbery sad sack sapless sapphist scaredy-cat scuttle service stripe setting hen shoulder patch shoulder sleeve insignia sinewless sissified sissy sissyish skedaddle slack soft softling softy sop speckled sussex spineless spread eagle spunkless squab star stewing chicken strengthless stripe submarine badge sumatra sussex timid timorous tom tom turkey tribade turkey turkey gobbler turkey-cock twink uncourageous unhardened unmanly unmanned unnerved unstrung volaille weak weak kneed weak sister weak-kneed weakhearted weakling weakly white feather white liver white orpington white plymouth rock white wyandotte white-livered wild duck wimp wings womanish yellow

Adjective(42 words)

liver-faced liver-hearted low-hearted miching milk-livered milky mortified mouse-hearted mousy nerveless niddering nidering niding nithing nutless panicked pigeon-livered poltroonish poor-spirited punk

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Noun(40 words)

lizard milquetoast nancy niddering nidering nidget niding nithing piece of crap piece of shit pisspants poltroon poulet pretty boy pullet punk pussy pussyboy pussyhole quakebreech

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quakebuttock quiche-eater recreant scaredy cat scaredy pants shithouse sissy slag sluggard snool sook spring chicken twink volaille weak sister wheyface wimp yellow back yellow belly yellowbelly

Adjective(3 words)

white-livered yellow yellow-bellied

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