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Alternative forms

• chicken-****, chicken ****

Adjective

chickenshit ‎(comparative more chickenshit, superlative most chickenshit)

1. (slang, vulgar) Petty and contemptible; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.)
2. (vulgar, slang) Cowardly.

   How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.

Noun

chickenshit ‎(countable and uncountable, plural chickenshits)

1. (slang, vulgar) Petty and contemptible thing(s).

   Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.

2. (slang, vulgar) A coward.

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

3. (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:) ****, crap, bullcrap, bullshit, junk, trash, dogshit, Irish bull, horseshit

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