gallina — meaning in English
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English meaning
- chicken noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
- coward noun A person who lacks courage, especially someone who avoids danger or difficulty out of fear.
- hen noun An adult female chicken, especially one kept for laying eggs.
- poltroon noun An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch.
- wimp noun Someone seen as weak, timid, or lacking backbone.
- wimpy adj Weak, feeble, or lacking courage or resolve; wimp-like.
Senses
gallina is used for these senses in English:
- chicken (countable, slang, sometimes, derogatory) A coward.
- chicken-hearted Not brave; lacking courage; cowardly. [from 17th c.]
- coward A person who lacks courage.
- hen A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl.
- mother hen (literally) A female chicken who bears eggs or chicks.
- poltroon An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch.
- wimp (chiefly, derogatory, slang) Someone who lacks confidence or courage, is weak, ineffectual, irresolute and wishy-washy.
chicken — full definition
- noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
- noun The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
- noun (informal) A cowardly person.
- adj (informal) Cowardly; afraid to do something.
- verb (informal, usually with "out") To back out of something through fear.