"chickenshit" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-au-chickenshit.ogg [Australia] Forms: more chickenshit [comparative], most chickenshit [superlative]
Etymology: From chicken + shit. Etymology templates: {{com|en|chicken|shit}} chicken + shit Head templates: {{en-adj}} chickenshit (comparative more chickenshit, superlative most chickenshit)
  1. (slang, vulgar) petty and contemptible; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.) Tags: slang, vulgar
    Sense id: en-chickenshit-en-adj-vtdE3GA7
  2. (vulgar, slang) cowardly Tags: slang, vulgar Categories (topical): Fear, People
    Sense id: en-chickenshit-en-adj-oIeF-W~0 Disambiguation of Fear: 9 56 5 1 29 Disambiguation of People: 7 46 0 0 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: chicken-shit, chicken shit

Noun

Audio: En-au-chickenshit.ogg [Australia] Forms: chickenshits [plural]
Etymology: From chicken + shit. Etymology templates: {{com|en|chicken|shit}} chicken + shit Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} chickenshit (countable and uncountable, plural chickenshits)
  1. (slang, vulgar) (A) petty and contemptible thing(s). Tags: countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar Synonyms (petty or contemptible thing): shit [vulgar] Translations (contemptible thing): d'la merde [feminine] (French), des conneries [feminine, plural] (French), фигня́ (fignjá) [feminine] (Russian), херня́ (xernjá) [feminine] (Russian), хуйня́ (xujnjá) [feminine, vulgar] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-chickenshit-en-noun-3KiW~k78 Disambiguation of 'petty or contemptible thing': 73 0 27 Disambiguation of 'contemptible thing': 83 0 17
  2. (slang, vulgar) coward Tags: countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar Synonyms (coward): coward Translations (coward): poule mouillée [feminine] (French), couille molle [feminine] (French), sans-couilles [feminine, masculine, plural] (French), péteux [masculine] (French), χέστης (chéstis) [masculine] (Greek), χεζάς (chezás) [masculine] (Greek), χεζού (chezoú) [feminine] (Greek), Italian: mammoletta (Italian), femminuccia (Italian), coniglio (Italian), merlo (Italian), pollo (Italian), smidollato (Italian), pappa molle (Italian), pappamolle (Italian), rammollito (Italian), fifone (Italian), codardo (Italian), cortigiano (Italian), mollusco (Italian), vigliacco (Italian), pusillanime (Italian), eunuco (Italian), debole [masculine] (Italian), pisciasotto (Italian), cacasotto (Italian), pauroso (Italian), vile (Italian), ссыку́н (ssykún) [masculine] (Russian), ссыку́нья (ssykúnʹja) [feminine] (Russian), ссыку́ха (ssykúxa) [feminine] (Russian), ссыкло́ (ssykló) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-chickenshit-en-noun-oZPSyZ-5 Disambiguation of 'coward': 0 100 0 Disambiguation of 'coward': 0 100 0
  3. (vulgar, military, slang) A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet. Tags: countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar Categories (topical): Military, People
    Sense id: en-chickenshit-en-noun-KVY3Xdjz Disambiguation of People: 7 46 0 0 46 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 1 16 1 49 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 34 5 14 1 46 Topics: government, military, politics, war
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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          "text": "How chickenshit do you have to be to go after an old man in a wheelchair?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "(vulgar, slang) cowardly"
      ],
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      "word": "chicken-shit"
    },
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      "word": "chicken shit"
    }
  ],
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}

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      "name": "com"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "text": "Don't waste your time on that chickenshit."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 December 15, A.J. Jacobs, “George H.W. Bush*: What I've Learned”, in Esquire",
          "text": "I went to see Lyndon Johnson, and I was telling him I wanted to run for Senate. And he said, \"The difference between the Senate and the House is the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit.\" Johnson was amazing.",
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        "(A) petty and contemptible thing(s)."
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        "(slang, vulgar) (A) petty and contemptible thing(s)."
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        {
          "text": "I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit."
        }
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        "(slang, vulgar) coward"
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        {
          "text": "That chickenshit drove his men nearly to mutiny."
        }
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      "glosses": [
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          "military"
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        "(vulgar, military, slang) A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet."
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      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "coward"
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    {
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "word": "pussy"
    },
    {
      "word": "wuss"
    },
    {
      "word": "shithouse"
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    {
      "sense": "petty or contemptible thing",
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "shit"
    },
    {
      "word": "crap"
    },
    {
      "word": "bullcrap"
    },
    {
      "word": "bullshit"
    },
    {
      "word": "junk"
    },
    {
      "word": "trash"
    },
    {
      "word": "dogshit"
    },
    {
      "word": "Irish bull"
    },
    {
      "word": "horseshit"
    },
    {
      "word": "chicken-shit"
    },
    {
      "word": "chicken shit"
    }
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "coward",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "poule mouillée"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "coward",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "couille molle"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "coward",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
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      "word": "sans-couilles"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "coward",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "péteux"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "chéstis",
      "sense": "coward",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "χέστης"
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "chezás",
      "sense": "coward",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "χεζάς"
    },
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "chezoú",
      "sense": "coward",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "χεζού"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "Italian: mammoletta"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "femminuccia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "coniglio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "merlo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "pollo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "smidollato"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "pappa molle"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "pappamolle"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "rammollito"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "fifone"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "codardo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "cortigiano"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "mollusco"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "vigliacco"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "pusillanime"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "eunuco"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "debole"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "pisciasotto"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "cacasotto"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "pauroso"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coward",
      "word": "vile"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ssykún",
      "sense": "coward",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ссыку́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ssykúnʹja",
      "sense": "coward",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ссыку́нья"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ssykúxa",
      "sense": "coward",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ссыку́ха"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ssykló",
      "sense": "coward",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ссыкло́"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "contemptible thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "d'la merde"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "contemptible thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "des conneries"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "fignjá",
      "sense": "contemptible thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фигня́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xernjá",
      "sense": "contemptible thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "херня́"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xujnjá",
      "sense": "contemptible thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "хуйня́"
    }
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}
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