hare-hearted

English

Adjective

hare-hearted (comparative more hare-hearted, superlative most hare-hearted)

  1. (archaic) timorous; timid; easily frightened.
    • 1725, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd:
      aft by night, bumbaze hare-hearted fools

References
  • hare-hearted in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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