English
Noun
Sense: person who lacks courage
Synonyms
- bottler (slang)
- caitiff (archaic)
- candy-ass (slang, US & Canada)
- candy-arse (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth)
- coistril (obsolete)
- coward
- chicken (slang)
- chicken liver (slang)
- chickenshit (coarse US slang)
- cocktail (UK, slang)
- cowardy custard (slang)
- craven
- dog [⇒ thesaurus]
- fraidy cat (childish)
- funker
- gutless wonder (slang)
- invertebrate [⇒ thesaurus] (informal)
- jessie (dated, sexist)
- lizard
- milquetoast
- nancy (sexist)
- niddering (archaic)
- nidering (archaic)
- nidget
- niding (archaic)
- nithing (archaic)
- piece of crap (coarse slang)
- piece of shit (coarse slang)
- pisspants (coarse slang)
- pullet (slang)
- punk
- pussy (vulgar, slang, chiefly US & Canada)
- pussyhole
- quiche-eater
- quakebreech (obsolete)
- quakebuttock (obsolete)
- recreant
- scaredy cat (childish)
- scaredy pants (childish)
- shithouse (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, coarse slang)
- sissy (sexist)
- slag (UK, Ireland, dated, slang)
- sluggard
- snool
- sook (slang)
- weak sister (US, idiomatic)
- wheyface
- yellow belly (slang)
- yellow back (slang)
Hyponyms
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Various
See also
Further reading
- “862. Cowardice” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “coward” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.