hen-heartedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

hen-hearted (comparative more hen-hearted, superlative most hen-hearted)

1. (archaic) cowardly; timid
   • 1522, John Skelton, Why Not to Court:

     They kepe them in theyr holdes, Lyke henherted cokoldes.

関連する語

• hen-heartedness

参考

• chicken, chicken-hearted

参照

• “hen-hearted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.