milk-livered

adjective

milk-liv·ered ˈmilk-ˌli-vərd

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archaic

: cowardly, timorous

Examples of milk-livered in a Sentence

vented his spleen at those milk-livered men who refused to fight for king and country

Word History

First Known Use

1606, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of milk-livered was in 1606

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