chickenshit
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet.
Countable; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing."
- ""How chickenshit do you have to be to go after an old man in a wheelchair?""
- "Don't waste your time on that chickenshit."
- "I went to see Lyndon Johnson, and I was telling him I wanted to run for Senate. And he said, "The difference between the Senate and the House is the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit." Johnson was amazing."
- "I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit."
- "That chickenshit drove his men nearly to mutiny."
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Usage
Inflected Forms
more chickenshit (comparative)
most chickenshit (superlative)
chicken-shit (alternative)
chicken shit (alternative)
chickenshits (plural)