chickenshit

chickenshit
1) n
anything worthless, petty or contempti-ble. In American usage the word origi-nally had the specific meaning of oppressive minor regulations and other effects of bureaucracy, particularly in the armed forces in World War II. The noun sense is now rarer than the adjec-tival use of the word, except when describing paltry amounts of money.
2) adj
a.
cowardly, afraid.
An Americanism which was adopted in Britain, mainly by schoolchildren and teenagers, in the late 1980s.
b.
petty, contemptible.
This sense derives from the American and Canadian armed-forces' expression to describe small-minded regulations, orders, etc.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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