feartie
/ˈfɪəti
/(also feardie /ˈfɪədi/)
noun Scottish informal
A coward or timid person: she is not such a feartie as she makes out...
- I've never been for a reading with him because I'm a total feartie.
- The perils of a barren upbringing have made me a right wee feartie.
- He was invited to "stop being a pathetic big feartie and get out and debate the issues".
Origin
1920s: from feart + -ie.
- self-examining
- pay for itself
- pay freeze
- pay-gate
- pay grade
- pay gravel
- pay hike
- paying back
- paying guest
- paying in
- paying off
- paying-off pendant
- paying-off pennant
- paying out
- pay it forward
- pay its (or one's) way
- payline
- pay lip service to
- payload
- payloader
- paymaster
- Paymaster General
- Paymaster-Generalship
- paymastership
- payment