cow-heartn.
A coward.
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the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > coward(s)
coward?a1289
hen-hearta1450
staniel?a1500
pigeon?1571
cow1581
quake-breech1584
cow-baby1594
custard1598
chicken heart1602
nidget1605
hen?1613
faintling1614
white-liver1614
chickena1616
quake-buttocka1627
skitterbrooka1652
dunghill1761
cow-heart1768
shy-cock1768
fugie1777
slag1788
man of chaff1799
fainter1826
possum1833
cowardy, cowardy, custard1836
sheep1840
white feather1857
funk1859
funkstick1860
lily-liver1860
faint-heart1870
willy boy1895
blert1905
squib1908
fraid cat (also fraidy cat)c1910–23
manso1912
feartie1923
yellowbelly1927
chicken liver1930
boneless wonder1931
scaredy-cat1933
sook1933
pantywaist1935
punk1939
ringtail1941
chickenshit1945
candy-ass1953
pansy-ass1963
unbrave1981
bottler1994
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 274 Your skirmishing parties, call them cohorts or cow-hearts, shall never drive my statarianly disciplined battallion from its ground.
1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. 50 Cowheart, a coward.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Cow-heart, coward.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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