Chicken-hearted

Chamber's Etymological of the English Language · 1895 · p. 81
chik'en-hurt'ed, adj. as timid as a chicken cowardly. Chicken-pox, chik'en-poks, *. mild skin-disease, generally attacking children only. Chickling, chik'hng, « a little chicken. ChiCkweed, chik'wed, a low creeping weed that birds are fond of. Chicory, Chiccory, chik'o-ri, * succory, a carrot like plant, the root of which when ground is used to adulterate coffee Fr. thitoree— L. cickorium, succory —Gr. kichdnon. Chide, chid, v to scold, rebuke, reprove by words \—prp chld'ing pa. chid, (obs. chode fa.p. chid, chidd'en [A.S cidau.]
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