hare-hearted

English

Adjective

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

(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.

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