chickenshit

See also: chicken-shit

English

Alternative forms

chicken-shit, chicken shit

Etymology

chicken +‎ shit

Adjective

chickenshit (comparative more chickenshit, superlative most chickenshit)

(slang, vulgar) Petty and contemptible; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.)
(vulgar, slang) Cowardly.
How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.

Noun

chickenshit (countable and uncountable, plural chickenshits)

(slang, vulgar) Petty and contemptible thing(s).
Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.
(slang, vulgar) A coward.
I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit.
(vulgar, military, slang) 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.

Synonyms

(coward): coward; (slang:) chicken, pussy, wuss, shithouse
(petty or contemptible thing): (mostly vulgar:) shit, crap, bullcrap, bullshit, junk, trash, dogshit, Irish bull, horseshit

Translations

coward

French: poule mouillée (fr) f
Greek: χέστης (el) m (chéstis), χεζάς (el) m (chezás), χεζού (el) f (chezoú)

Italian: * Italian: mammoletta, femminuccia (it), coniglio (it), merlo (it), pollo (it), smidollato (it), pappa molle, pappamolle, rammollito (it), fifone (it), codardo (it), cortigiano (it), mollusco (it), vigliacco (it), pusillanime (it), eunuco (it), debole (it) m, pisciasotto (it), cacasotto (it), pauroso (it), vile (it)
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} cobarde de mierda m or f

contemptible thing

French: d'la merde (fr) f, des conneries (fr) f pl

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