POLTROON Synonyms

• a despicable coward

• despicably cowardly

• the flesh of a chicken used for food

• a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

• a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

• a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

• easily frightened

• easily frightened

• a person who shows fear or timidity

• English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)

• large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles

• any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

• easily frightened

• a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive

• lacking courage or vitality

• an insipid weakling who is foolishly sentimental

• lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful

• lacking a backbone or spinal column

• lacking spiny processes

• lacking courage or vitality

• lacking thorns

• a person who is physically weak and ineffectual

• yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons

• of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk

• easily frightened

• changed to a yellowish color by age

• typical of tabloids

• cowardly or treacherous

• affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc

• turn yellow

• easily frightened

• an abject coward

• a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

• having deserted a cause or principle

• lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful