gallinas

adj. chicken, type of fowl; chicken hearted, cowardly, fearful; (derogatory) Peruvian

n. hen, fowl, chicken; coward, funk; (derogatory) Peruvian

= hen, wuss, cowardly, wussy [wussier -comp., wussiest -sup.].
Ex: So Hutchins arranges her drawings in such a way that as your eye travels leftwards across the page you see the fox who is stalking the hen and trying to catch her.
Ex: He goes on to state that liberals are wusses for claiming 'I support the troops but not the war'.
Ex: Tachers found girls more virile, obtrusive, mischievous, sharing, straightforward, careless, dependent, quiet, and cowardly.
Ex: And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken.
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* dilema de qué es primero el huevo o la gallina = chicken and egg situation.