"chicken-hearted" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From chicken + hearted, after chicken heart. Compare hen-hearted.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "word": "brave"
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "chicken-heartedly"
        },
        {
          "word": "chicken-heartedness"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "This chicken-hearted couple, by the light of a rush-candle that burned on the hearth, seeing a stranger burst into the chamber, in such a terrible attitude, were seized with consternation […].",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not brave; lacking courage; cowardly."
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        [
          "brave",
          "brave"
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        [
          "courage",
          "courage"
        ],
        [
          "cowardly",
          "cowardly"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hen-hearted"
        },
        {
          "word": "cowardly"
        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lacking courage",
          "word": "jänishousuinen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "lacking courage",
          "word": "ängstlich"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "lacking courage",
          "word": "furchtsam"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "lacking courage",
          "word": "nyúlszívű"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "lacking courage",
          "word": "gyáva"
        },
        {
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "lacking courage",
          "word": "poltrona"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "lacking courage",
          "word": "gallina"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "lacking courage",
          "word": "harhjärtad"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "lacking courage",
          "word": "feg"
        }
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    {
      "word": "chicken-heartedly"
    },
    {
      "word": "chicken-heartedness"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From chicken + hearted, after chicken heart. Compare hen-hearted.",
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    },
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          "word": "lionhearted"
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          "word": "brave"
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          "text": "This chicken-hearted couple, by the light of a rush-candle that burned on the hearth, seeing a stranger burst into the chamber, in such a terrible attitude, were seized with consternation […].",
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      ],
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          "brave"
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        [
          "courage",
          "courage"
        ],
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          "cowardly",
          "cowardly"
        ]
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        {
          "word": "hen-hearted"
        },
        {
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lacking courage",
      "word": "jänishousuinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lacking courage",
      "word": "ängstlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lacking courage",
      "word": "furchtsam"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "lacking courage",
      "word": "nyúlszívű"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "lacking courage",
      "word": "gyáva"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "lacking courage",
      "word": "poltrona"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lacking courage",
      "word": "gallina"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lacking courage",
      "word": "harhjärtad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lacking courage",
      "word": "feg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chicken-hearted"
}