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chickenshit en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From chicken + shit.
Meanings
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(slang, vulgar) Petty; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.)
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(slang, vulgar) Cowardly.
"How chickenshit do you have to be to go after an old man in a wheelchair?"
2011, Stephen King, 11/22/63, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 807:How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.
Forms
Synonyms
chickenpoop
chickenshit en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From chicken + shit.
Meanings
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(countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar) A petty and contemptible thing or things.
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.
2010 December 15, A.J. Jacobs, “George H.W. Bush*: What I've Learned”, in Esquire:Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.
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(countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar) A coward.
I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit.
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(countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar) 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.
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(countable, literally, uncountable, vulgar) Chicken manure.
Forms
Synonyms
chickenpoop · horseshit · dogshit · pussy · chicken · wuss · trash · shit (petty or contemptible thing) · junk · Irish bull · bullshit · crap · bullcrap · shithouse · coward (coward)
Translations (37)
fr des conneries (contemptible thing) · it cortigiano (coward) · it pisciasotto (coward) · it femminuccia (coward) · it pauroso (coward) · it codardo (coward) · el χεζού (coward) · fr sans-couilles (coward) · fr péteux (coward) · it vile (coward) · it merlo (coward) · it coniglio (coward) · it pappamolle (coward) · it eunuco (coward) · it cacasotto (coward) · fr poule mouillée (coward) · ru ссыку́н (coward) · fr couille molle (coward) · ru ссыку́ха (coward) · it pappa molle (coward) · ru хуйня́ (contemptible thing) · ru фигня́ (contemptible thing) · it pusillanime (coward) · ru ссыкло́ (coward) · it mollusco (coward) · it fifone (coward) · el χεζάς (coward) · it pollo (coward) · fr d'la merde (contemptible thing) · it smidollato (coward) · it Italian: mammoletta (coward) · el χέστης (coward) · it vigliacco (coward) · ru херня́ (contemptible thing) · it rammollito (coward) · ru ссыку́нья (coward) · it debole (coward)