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poltroonadjective having or showing a shameful lack of couragea military commander who was so poltroon that he surrendered without having fired so much as a single shot chicken, chicken-livered, chickenhearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered(archaic), pusillanimous, recreant, spineless, unheroic, yellow diffident, fainthearted, fearful, timid, timorousafraid, frightened, scaredcareful, cautious, warybashful, coy, shyfeeble, soft, unmanly, weak brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, gutsy, hardy, heroic(also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous audacious, bold, brazen, cheeky, nervyplucky, spirited, spunkydetermined, resolute a person who shows a shameful lack of courage in the face of dangerthose poltroons in the state legislature who have caved in to bigotry on this important issue of basic civil rights chicken, coward, craven, cur, dastard, funk, recreant, sissy defeatist, quittercream puff, milquetoast, pushover, pussy(slang), weakling, wimpcaitiff, snake, sneakostrich, scaramouch(or scaramouche) hero, stalwart, valiant daredevil ca. 1529 |