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English
Adjective
pigeon-hearted (comparative more pigeon-hearted, superlative most pigeon-hearted)
- (archaic) timid, or easily frightened
- Synonym: chicken-hearted
c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv:I never saw such pigeon-hearted people: What drum? what danger?
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