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chickenshit
noun 4adj 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
allergic
VERB + CHICKENSHIT
hates, time
CHICKENSHIT + NOUN
girl
PREP.
down, on
Definitions
adj
1
Petty; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.)
2
Cowardly.
How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.
"How chickenshit do you have to be to go after an old man in a wheelchair?"
noun
1
A petty and contemptible thing or things.
Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.
I went to see Lyndon Johnson, and I was telling him I wanted to run for Senate. And he said, "The difference between the Senate and the House is the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit." Johnson was amazing.
2
A coward.
I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit.
3
A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet.
That chickenshit drove his men nearly to mutiny.
4
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chicken, shit: chicken manure.
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How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.
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"How chickenshit do you have to be to go after an old man in a wheelchair?"
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Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.
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I went to see Lyndon Johnson, and I was telling him I wanted to run for Senate. And he said, "The difference between the Senate and the House is the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit."
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I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit.
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I'm no chickenshit.
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