cacasotto — meaning in English
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English meaning
- chicken noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
- milksop noun A piece of bread sopped in milk.
- pansy noun A small cultivated garden flower with broad, often multicoloured petals.
- sissy noun (informal, derogatory) A timid or cowardly person, especially a man or boy seen as insufficiently masculine.
- weenie noun Someone weak and unimportant, a wimp.
- wimp noun Someone seen as weak, timid, or lacking backbone.
- wuss noun An informal, slightly mocking word for someone seen as weak, timid, or easily scared.
Senses
cacasotto is used for these senses in English:
- chicken (countable, slang, sometimes, derogatory) A coward.
- milksop (by extension, pejorative) An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.
- namby-pamby One who is insipid, sentimental, or weak.
- pansy (derogatory, colloquial) A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
- sissy (sometimes, derogatory, colloquial) A timid, unassertive or cowardly person.
- weenie (slang, sometimes, derogatory) Someone weak and unimportant, a wimp.
- wimp (chiefly, derogatory, slang) Someone who lacks confidence or courage, is weak, ineffectual, irresolute and wishy-washy.
- wuss (slang, mildly, derogatory) A weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person.
chicken — full definition
- noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
- noun The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
- noun (informal) A cowardly person.
- adj (informal) Cowardly; afraid to do something.
- verb (informal, usually with "out") To back out of something through fear.
milksop — full definition
- noun A piece of bread sopped in milk.
- noun A dish consisting of bread pieces in a bowl, sprinkled with sugar and covered in hot milk.
- noun An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.