poule mouillée — meaning in English

English meaning

• chicken noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
• sissy noun (informal, derogatory) A timid or cowardly person, especially a man or boy seen as insufficiently masculine.
• weakling noun A physically frail or sickly person.

Senses

poule mouillée is used for these senses in English:

• chicken (countable, slang, sometimes, derogatory) A coward.
• sissy (sometimes, derogatory, colloquial) A timid, unassertive or cowardly person.
• weakling (figuratively) A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.

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.

sissy — full definition

1. noun (informal, derogatory) A timid or cowardly person, especially a man or boy seen as insufficiently masculine.
2. adj Timid, cowardly, or excessively delicate.

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