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YELLOW-BELLIED

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• YELLOW-BELLIED (adjective)
The adjective YELLOW-BELLIED has 1 sense:

1. easily frightened

Familiarity information: YELLOW-BELLIED used as an adjective is very rare.

• YELLOW-BELLIED (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Easily frightened

Synonyms:

chicken; chickenhearted; lily-livered; white-livered; yellow-bellied; yellow

Similar:

cowardly; fearful (lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

"Curiosity killed the cat. Satisfaction brought it back, that's why the cat has nine lives"
(English proverb)
"We do not inherit the world from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."
(Native American proverb, tribe unknown)
"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
(Arabic proverb)
"He who sleeps cannot catch fish."
(Corsican proverb)

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