flinchern.
/ˈflɪn(t)ʃə/, U.S. /ˈflɪn(t)ʃər/ 1. One who hangs back or gives way, esp. at a crisis or in time of danger, etc.; one who shrinks from (an undertaking, etc.).
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the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > skulking > skulker
skulkc1320
skulker1387
flincher1598
quitter1665
slink1824
turnback1843
sneakaway1900
trouble-shirker1908
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [noun] > giving way or giving in > one who
flincher1598
yielder1598
fainter1826
succumber1844
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > shrinking or recoiling > one who
flincher1598
starter?1614
blanchera1659
funker1826
blencher1873
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Taccognatore..a conycatcher, a micher, a flincher, a paltrer.
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 272 All the flinchers that forsooke him.
1664 H. More Expos. 7 Epist. (1669) iv. 51 That sharp reprehension of Flinchers from the Faith.
1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal II. ii. xiv I am no flincher; I never say aye when I mean no.
1836 T. N. Talfourd in W. Hazlitt. Lit. Remains 295 In society, as in politics, he was no flincher.
2. One who passes the bottle; one who abstains from drinking.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > one who
flincher1549
abstainer1854
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Jas. i. f. xxixv He is counted a flyncher that foloweth sobrietie.
1673 Siege in W. Davenant Wks. v. 85/1 What a flincher, Quaff it off Mulciber.
a1748 C. Pitt Ep. to Mr. Spence 94 The sot..Swears at the flinchers who refuse their glass.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. iv. 74 A German student is no flincher at the bottle.
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