Usually means: Lacking courage; excessively meek, timid.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word pigeon-livered:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. pigeon-livered: Merriam-Webster
  2. pigeon-livered, pigeon-livered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pigeon-livered: Wordnik
  4. pigeon-livered: Wiktionary
  5. pigeon-livered: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. pigeon-livered: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Pigeon-livered, pigeon-livered: Dictionary.com
  8. Pigeon-livered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. pigeon-livered: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Pigeon-livered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. pigeon-livered: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. Pigeon-livered: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. pigeon-livered: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Pigeon-livered: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pigeon-livered)

▸ adjective:  (dated or archaic) cowardly

Similar:
pigeon-hearted, chicken-livered, lily-livered, hen-hearted, white-livered, milk-livered, liver-faced, chicken-hearted, liver-hearted, argh, more...

Opposite:
courageous, brave, bold, fearless, daring

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Similar:
pigeon-hearted, chicken-livered, lily-livered, hen-hearted, white-livered, milk-livered, liver-faced, chicken-hearted, liver-hearted, argh, more...

Opposite:
courageous, brave, bold, fearless, daring



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