What's the difference between chickenshit and horseshit?

Chickenshit


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are all these businessmen with loads of money too chickenshit to do this.” What was amazing about Pussy Riot, she says, “is that it opened up this philosophical debate.
  • (2) US relations with Israel have plunged to new depths of bitterness and hostility as senior officials in the Obama administration decried Binyamin Netanyahu as a “chickenshit prime minister”, “coward” and a man more interested in his own political survival than peace.
  • (3) A s the crisis in relations between the United States and Israel plunges to new depths, senior Obama administration officials last week allegedly described Israeli leader Binyamin Netanyahu as a “chickenshit prime minister” and a “coward” .
  • (4) Love did his bit to add to the ongoing weirdness by accepting the band's induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with a rambling speech in which he variously attacked Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and called Mick Jagger a "chickenshit".
  • (5) If anything, the ubiquity of other kids going through the same thing led many of my friends and I to the same conclusions: that somehow we were more chickenshit than our other friends, that locking yourself in the bedroom and pleading with one parent not to send you over to another parent’s home for their custodial visitation manifested some particularly unmanly cravenness.
  • (6) The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” said one official quoted in the Atlantic.

Horseshit


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And when you ask someone who’s passed along some specious “don’t get raped” tips or suggested a self-defense class to a woman concerned about rapes in her neighborhood what they were thinking, they’re likely to respond with something like “Better safe than sorry!” Translation: Even if what I’m telling you to remember is a pile of stinking horseshit, you should still engage in this ritualized expression of anxiety with me, because it makes me feel slightly better about things I can’t control.
  • (2) I did have another audience which didn't go in for the same horseshit."
  • (3) With apologies for my vulgarity, this is complete horseshit.
  • (4) Just drinking whisky, scratching horseshit on to kitchen roll and firing it into the flames.
  • (5) So in my mind I always thought, to put it in a very nice way, this is horseshit.