cowardess

English

Etymology

From coward +‎ -ess.

Noun

cowardess (plural cowardesses)

  1. (rare) A female coward.
    • 2016, John M. Hunt, The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome: A Social History of the Papal Interregnum‎[1]:
      […] he began to yell and insult me, calling me a cowardess, a bugger, and a broken-bottomed whore.
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