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pigeon-livered
[ pij-uhn-liv-erd ]
adjective
- meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pigeon-livered1
Example Sentences
鈥淚 am pigeon-livered and lack gall,鈥 he laments.
Never was a Hamlet less pigeon-livered; yet never was there one who was less "the glass of fashion and the mold of form."
Young, sensitive, delicate, he was like 聽聽聽聽"A bud bit by an envious worm, 聽聽聽聽Ere he could spread his sweet leaves to the air, 聽聽聽聽Or dedicate his beauty to the sun"鈥 and unable to endure the miscreant cry and idiot laugh, withdrew to sigh his last breath in foreign climes.鈥擳he public is as envious and ungrateful as it is ignorant, stupid, and pigeon-livered鈥 "A huge-sized monster of ingratitudes."
"Pigeon-livered blatherskite!鈥攖hat's what I call ye鈥攄'ye hear?" said Drayton.
It must needs be thou art pigeon-livered and lack gall!
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