From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary --
Synonyms fainthearted, fearful, fearsome, mouse, mousy (or mousey), scary, skittish, timid, timorous, tremulous
Related Words chicken, chickenhearted, chicken-livered, cowardly, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered [archaic], poltroon, pusillanimous, spineless
I like lily-livered mouse.
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