coward
noun · adjective · verbA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A person who lacks courage.
Near-synonyms: big baby, baby
1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward, he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.
Đồng nghĩa: chicken, pullet, scaredy pants, yellowbelly, big baby, baby
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Cowardly.
c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 4, He rais’d the house with loud and coward cries.
- 2.
(heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
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verb- 1.
(obsolete, transitive)To intimidate.
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ine-pro From Middle English coward, from Old French coart, cuard ( > couard), from coue (tail), coe + -ard; coue, coe is in turn from Latin cauda.