Definition of "chickenshit" in English

adjective

1. (slang, vulgar) Petty; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.)

2. (vulgar, slang) Cowardly.

   • How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.

noun

1. (slang, vulgar) A petty and contemptible thing or things.

   • Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.

2. (slang, vulgar) A coward.

   • I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit.

3. (military slang, vulgar) A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet.

   • That chickenshit drove his men nearly to mutiny.

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chicken, shit: chicken manure.