cowardliness &c adj.; timidity, effeminacy.
poltroonery, baseness; dastardness†, dastardy†; abject fear, funk;
Dutch courage; fear &c 860; white feather, faint heart; cold feet
[U.S.], yellow streak [Slang].
coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant; shy cock, dunghill
cock; coistril†, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget†, one that
cannot say 'boo' to a goose; slink; Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak.
alarmist, terrorist†, pessimist; runagate &c (fugitive) 623.
V. quail &c (fear) 860; be cowardly &c adj., be a coward &c n.; funk;
cower, skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run away
&c (avoid) 623; show, the white feather.
Adj. coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor-
spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate.
weak-minded; infirm of purpose &c 605; weak-hearted, fainthearted,
chickenhearted, henhearted†, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted; white-
livered†, lily-livered, milk-livered†; milksop, smock-faced; unable to
say 'boo' to a goose.
dastard, dastardly; base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant;
unwarlike, unsoldier-like.
in face a lion but in heart a deer.
unmanned; frightened &c 860.
Int. sauve qui peut! [Fr.], every man for himself! [Fr.Tr.]; devil take
the hindmost!,
Phr. ante tubam trepidat [Lat.], one's courage oozing out; degeneres
animos timor arguit [Lat.] [Vergil].