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HEN-HEARTED

Definition: HEN-HEARTED

HEN-HEARTED

Adjective

1. Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: HEN-HEARTED

DomainDefinitions

Slang in 1811

HEN-HEARTED. Cowardly. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: HEN-HEARTED

Language Translations for "HEN-HEARTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zemërpulë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

страхлив (chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, dastardly, fainthearted, fearful, funky, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, recreant, sissy, spiritless), малодушен (chickenhearted, cowardly, lily livered, poor spirited, pusillanimous, recreant, weak-kneed, white livered). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gyáva (as timid as a rabbit, caitiff, chicken hearted, coward, craven, lily livered, milk-livered, milquetoastish, recreant, timid, timorous, weak-spirited, yellow). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

en-heartedhay

   

Romanian

  

meschin (base, basely, base-spirited, costive, illiberal, little, low down, mean, mercantile, nasty, paltrily, paltry, peddling, pettily, petty, shabby, small, sneaky, sordid, stingy, trivial), laş (base-spirited, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, cur, dastard, dastardly, faint-hearted, funk, invertebrate, lily livered, milk-livered, mollycoddle, pigeon-hearted, poltroon, recreant, sneak, sneaky, unmanly, white livered, yellow), fricos (apprehensive, caitiff, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, cur, dastard, eerie, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, funky, hare-hearted, lily livered, milk-livered, mollycoddle, Patsi, pigeon-hearted, piker, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, shy, spiritless, timid, timorous, white livered, yellow). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

трусливый (chicken hearted, chicken-hearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, fainthearted, faint-hearted, funky, knock-kneed, lily livered, lily-livered, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, poor-spirited, recreant, sneaky, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow-livered), малодушный (chicken hearted, chicken-hearted, cowardly, fainthearted, pusillanimous, weak-kneed, weak-spirited, white livered, white-livered). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

plašljiv (afraid, craven, fearful, fearsome, henhearted, lily livered, mousey, mousy, scary, shy, timid, tremulous). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tavşan yürekli (chicken hearted, chicken-livered), korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cissy, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, dingo, faint, faintheart, fainthearted, fearful, funk, funky, gutless, lily livered, milksop, milquetoast, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, scary, sissy, skulking, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, spiritless, timid, unmanly, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog), ödlek (chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cowardly, fainthearted, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, white livered, yellow dog). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nhút nhát (chicken-hearted, diffident, faint-hearted, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor-spirited, rabbity, shily, shy, shyly, spiritless, timid, timorous, wak-hearted, white-livered), nhát gan; khiếp nhược. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "HEN-HEARTED"

Words rhyming with "HEN-HEARTED" (pronounced 'Hen"-heart`ed'): Above-cited, Aforecited, Alike-minded, Antimoniureted, armor-plated, Arrowheaded, Arseniureted, Backhanded, baldheaded, Bank-sided, Barefooted, Barehanded, Beetle-headed, black-hearted, Blockheaded, Bluff-headed, Bristle-pointed, Broken-hearted, Broken-winded, Buckler-headed, Buffle-headed, Bullheaded, Carnal-minded, Cataphracted, Chicken-breasted, Chicken-hearted, Chuckleheaded, Clear-headed, Clear-sighted, Cleft-footed, Clodpated, Close-banded, Closefisted, Closehanded, Clubfisted, Clubfooted, Cold-blooded, Cold-hearted, Cool-headed, Cowhearted, Cross-banded, Dead-hearted, Deep-waisted, Dim-sighted, Discalceated, Dog-headed, Dog-hearted, Double-breasted, Doublethreaded, Dough-kneaded, Downhearted, Dread-bolted, Dry-fisted, Dull-sighted, Dunder-headed, Eagle-sighted, Earthen-hearted, Earthly-minded, Evenhanded, Evenminded, Evil-minded, Eye-minded, Fainthearted, Fair-minded, False-hearted, Farsighted, Fast-handed, Fat-wited, Feather-headed, Fin-footed, flat-footed, Flat-headed, Flint-hearted, Forecited, forehanded, Forequoted, foresighted, Fourfooted, fourhanded, Free-handed, Free-hearted, Free-minded, full-blooded, Full-hearted, Gentle-hearted, Giddy-headed, Great-hearted, Gross-headed, half-blooded, Half-hearted, Half-sighted, Hard-fisted, Hard-handed, Hard-headed, Hard-hearted, Hare-hearted, Heart-wounded, Heavenlyminded, Hell-haunted, high-handed, High-hearted, High-sighted, Hollow-hearted, Horny-handed, hot-blooded, Hot-headed, Hydra-tainted, Hydrosulphureted, Hypercarbureted, Icy-pearled, Idle-headed, Idle-pated, Ill-minded, Intellected, Iron-fisted, Iron-hearted, Iron-sided, Janus-headed, Journey-bated, Kind-hearted, Kneejointed, lap-jointed, Lapsided, Lap-welded, Large-handed, Large-hearted, Leaf-footed, left-handed, light-handed, light-headed, Light-hearted, light-minded, like-minded, Lily-handed, Lion-hearted, Lobe-footed, Lobsided, loggerheaded, Long-sighted, Long-waisted, lopsided, Low-minded, Low-thoughted, Mad-headed, Many-minded, many-sided, Motley-minded, Mouth-footed, Muddy-headed, Mushroom-headed, Nail-headed, Narrow-minded, Nearsighted, Noble-minded, Nott-headed, Oar-footed, Open-handed, Open-headed, Open-hearted, Parapeted, Party-coated, Percarbureted, Phosphureted, Pigeon-breasted, Pigeon-hearted, Pig-headed, Plain-hearted, Powder-posted, Public-hearted, Public-minded, Pudding-headed, Quick-scented, Quick-sighted, Rattle-headed, Rattle-pated, Righthanded, Right-hearted, right-minded, Rough-footed, roundheaded, Rug-headed, second-sighted, Seleniureted, Shallow-hearted, Shallow-pated, Shallow-waisted, sharp-sighted, Sheep-headed, shock-headed, short-dated, Short-jointed, shortsighted, Short-waisted, short-winded, Short-wited, Siliciureted, Simple-hearted, simple-minded, single-breasted, Slab-sided, Sober-minded, Soft-headed, Soft-hearted, Spiritual-minded, Stiff-hearted, Stone-hearted, Strait-handed, strong-minded, Subcarbureted, Sulphureted, Supercarbureted, Supersulphureted, Sure-footed, Sweet-breasted, sweet-scented, Tellureted, Tender-hearted, Tender-hefted, Thick-headed, Thick-winded, Thorn-headed, Thorough-lighted, Three-handed, Three-parted, Three-pointed, three-sided, Tickle-footed, Tiger-footed, Travel-tainted, Triparted, Triple-headed, Trothplighted, True-hearted, Turtle-footed, two-handed, Two-parted, two-sided, underhanded, Undermasted, Wagon-headed, Wall-sided, Warm-blooded, Warm-hearted, Weak-hearted, Weak-minded, Web-footed, Well-plighted, Wing-footed, Wing-handed, Wise-hearted, Worldly-minded, Wrongheaded. (additional references)

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Anagrams: HEN-HEARTED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-h-h-n-r-t"

-1 letter: heartened.

-2 letters: adherent, neatherd, reheated.

-3 letters: earthed, earthen, entered, hearted, hearten, heathen, heather.

-4 letters: adhere, aether, anteed, anther, ardent, dearth, derate, earned, endear, entera, entree, eterne, ethane, ethene, hanted, harden, hatred, header, hearth, heated, heater, heeder, hented, hereat, neared, neater, needer, nether, ranted, redate, reheat, rented, retene, teared, teener, tender, thenar, thread.

-5 letters: anted, antre, arete, dater, death, denar, derat, deter, eared, earth, eaten, eater, enate, ender, enter, ether, hared, hated, hater, heard, heart, heath, heder, neath, ranee, rated, rathe, redan, rente, tared, terne, thane, there, three, trade, tread, treed, treen, trend.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-h-h-n-r-t"
 

+4 letters: chickenhearted.

 

+5 letters: halfheartedness, hardheartedness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HEN-HEARTED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 45 4E 2D 48 45 41 52 54 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000101 01001110 00101101 01001000 01000101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#78 &#45 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 004E 002D 0048 0045 0041 0052 0054 0045 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4239481542393552543938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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