Farmers Slang & Its Analogues. 18901909, rev. 2022.
Lily-liver
subs. (common).A coward.
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1863. THACKERAY, The Roundabout Papers, xii. When people were yet afraid of me, and were taken in by my swagger, I always knew that I was a LILY-LIVER, and expected that I should be found out some day.