white-livered Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite easily frightened
    yellow-bellied; yellow; chickenhearted; lily-livered; chicken.

WordNet


White"-liv`ered adjective
Definitions
  1. Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.
    They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights. Latimer.

Webster 1913