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WHITE-LIVERED Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of WHITE-LIVERED is pusillanimous, lily-livered. www.merriam-webster.com
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WHITE-LIVERED Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
adjective · lacking courage; cowardly; lily-livered. · lacking in vitality or spirit; pale; unhealthy. white-livered. adjective. lacking in spirit or courage. www.dictionary.com
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White-Livered - from A Way with Words
The term white-livered, like lily-livered, can describe someone timid. But an old folk tradition, once common in the South, associates having a ... waywordradio.org
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white-livered
white-livered, a. (-əd) Having (according to an old notion, still surviving locally) a light-coloured liver, supposed to be due to a deficiency of bile or ‘choler’, and hence of vigour, spirit, or courage; feeble-spirited, cowardly, dastardly.1549 Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1569) F j b, What white lyuered C... Oxford English Dictionary
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white-livered (adj.) - ShakespearesWords.com
white-livered (adj.) Old form(s): White-liuer'd. lily-livered, cowardly, feeble-spirited. Headword location( ... www.shakespeareswords.com
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White-livered - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
adjective easily frightened synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied cowardly, fearful lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint- ... www.vocabulary.com
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white-liver
ˈwhite-ˌliver ? Obs. [white a. 5.] A ‘white-livered’ person, coward, dastard; ‘a flatterer’ (Jam. 1825).1615 Bp. Hall Contempl. ix. Gideon's Prep. 103 Oh thou white liuer! doth but a foule word, or a frowne scarre thee from Christ? 1673 Hickeringill Greg. Fr. Greyb. 207 Milk-sops, dastards and white... Oxford English Dictionary
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White liver: a cultural disorder resembling AIDS - PubMed
White liver refers to a condition characterized by sexual excess and a wasting to death of sexual partners. Although clearly antedating by many years the ... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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White livered widders - Appalachian History
People with an abnormally strong sex drive were said to suffer from white liver. The folk medicine record contains scant information on this folk illness. www.appalachianhistory.net
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Phinehas - White Livered (Music Video) - YouTube
Phinehas's new album - "Till The End" available on: Merchnow: http://smarturl.it/vcjdhb iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/jb63xq Google Play: ... www.youtube.com
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white-livered, adj. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the adjective white-livered is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for white-livered is from 1546. www.oed.com
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white-livered, adj. - Green's Dictionary of Slang
1. (also liver-faced, yellow-livered) cowardly [the assumption that a coward has insufficient bile or 'choler' in his liver, so rendering it white and him weak] ... greensdictofslang.com
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Nancy E. Krulik
Princess Pulverizer meets up with a dragon who uses his fire to make grilled cheese, and a timid knight-in-training who has been nicknamed Lucas the Lily-Livered Going Batty Red, White and-Achoo! Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow Three Cheers for...Who? Katie Kazoo specials Who's Afraid of Fourth Grade? wikipedia.org
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Victorian Mounted Rifles
In my opinion they are a lot of white-livered curs . . . You can add dogs too." wikipedia.org
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milk-livered
milk-livered, a. Cowardly, ‘white-livered’.1605 Shakes. Lear iv. ii. 50 Milk-Liuer'd man, That bear'st a cheeke for blowes. 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 20 You..hare-hearted, milk-livered poltroon. Oxford English Dictionary
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