Rte Guide

[galma]

1D Intimidate, like a docile beast for starters, only to be chicken? (10 or 3-7) ?o?h?a?t?d.

[Mamyalynne]

Cow hearted

[bobbinwales]

Don't really get how it works

[galma]

That is what I thought but it doesn’t make much sense as one word.

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Cowhearted#:~:text=a.,called%20him%20a%20cowhearted%20fellow.

To cow - to intimidate

[Mamyalynne]

It can be 3,7 as your clue says too.

[bobbinwales]

Got that bit mamyalynne but where does the docile beast
for starters fit in and/ or where as hearted come from'?

[Mamyalynne]

A cow is a docile beast.

Re - hearted, I have no idea.

Sorry if it's wrong - I can rarely fully fathom RTE clues.

[bobbinwales]

Thought that but cow has allready been covetred by intimidate. All I could think of was that cowheart might be a starter dish on a menu!

[elliemay1]

cowhearted(one word) means cowardly i.e chicken

[bobbinwales]

Yes that's understood. Wheres heart come from is the query

[elliemay1]

^ ...and 'cow' (docile beast) starts the word

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, I've provided a dictionary definition above.

[bobbinwales]

I'll stop. Think we'er at cross purposes . the answers right but the clue dosnt stack up

[elliemay1]

Are you not used to the Rte Guide clues by now, bobb??

[JimF]

Heart can sometimes be used to mean like, as in T-shirts with I♥NY.