poltron — meaning in English

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.
• milksop noun A piece of bread sopped in milk.
• poltroon noun An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch.

Senses

poltron is used for these senses in English:

• chicken (countable, slang, sometimes, derogatory) A coward.
• coward A person who lacks courage.
• lily-livered (idiomatic) Cowardly, lacking courage.
• milksop (by extension, pejorative) An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.
• poltroon An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch.

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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