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pelkuri — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • chicken noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
  • coward noun A person who lacks courage, especially someone who avoids danger or difficulty out of fear.
  • craven adj Completely lacking courage; cowardly, especially in a shameful way.
  • wuss noun An informal, slightly mocking word for someone seen as weak, timid, or easily scared.
  • yellow noun The bright color of lemons, sunflowers, and egg yolks, produced by light around 580 nanometers.

Senses

pelkuri is used for these senses in English:

  • chicken (countable, slang, sometimes, derogatory) A coward.
  • coward A person who lacks courage.
  • craven (archaic) A coward.
  • scaredy-cat (endearing) A coward; a person who is easily frightened or high-strung and easily scared.
  • wuss (slang, mildly, derogatory) A weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person.
  • yellow (informal) Lacking courage.

chicken — full definition

  1. noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
  2. noun The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
  3. noun (informal) A cowardly person.
  4. adj (informal) Cowardly; afraid to do something.
  5. verb (informal, usually with "out") To back out of something through fear.

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