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Yellow or Yellow Belly (see Chicken)

Meaning: not brave, cowardly.  Always used as an insult to try to make someone feel badly or to do something.  Yellow belly means exactly the same but is a bigger insult. Means the same is "chicken", but chicken is not quite so insulting and more of a childhood taunt.
How to use in a sentence: He was too yellow to complain to his boss that he had been unfairly treated.  On a school ground it might be, "you're too chicken to go tell that girl you like her."

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