hare-hearted

English

Adjective

hare-hearted (comparative more hare-hearted, superlative most hare-hearted)

1. (archaic) timorous; timid; easily frightened.
   • 1725, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd:

     aft by night, bumbaze hare-hearted fools

References

• “hare-hearted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.