Meaning of chickenshit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A petty and contemptible thing or things.
   countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
2. A coward.
   countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
3. A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet.
   countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chicken, shit: chicken manure.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.”

“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.”

“I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit.”

“That chickenshit drove his men nearly to mutiny.”

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