LILY-LIVERED


Meaning of LILY-LIVERED in English

| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective

Etymology: lily (I) + livered; from the whiteness of the lily and from the former belief that the choleric temperament depends on the body's producing large quantities of yellow bile

: lacking courage : cowardly

lily-livered poltroons lacking even the … courage of a rabbit — P.G.Wodehouse

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.