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Adjective: yellow-bellied  'ye-low'be-leed
Usage: informal
  1. Easily frightened
    "You're too yellow-bellied to do anything about it";
    - chicken [informal], chickenhearted [informal], lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, chicken-livered

See also: cowardly, fearful