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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having a belly that is yellow or yellowish. Used of certain birds, for example.
  2. adj. Slang Cowardly.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having the belly yellow, or having yellow on the abdomen: specific in phrase-names of many different animals: as, the yellow-bellied flycatcher, Empidonax flaviventris; the yellow-bellied woodpecker, Sphyropicus varius. See cut under sap-sucker.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of an animal or reptile having a yellow underside or belly.
  2. adj. figuratively Uncourageous, cowardly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. easily frightened

Etymologies

  1. From yellow belly (yellowbelly) (Wiktionary)

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