codardo — 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.
• cowardly adjective Lacking courage; showing fear when bravery is called for.
• milksop noun A piece of bread soaked in milk.
• pansy noun A small cultivated garden flower with broad, often multicoloured petals.
• pushover noun Someone who is easily persuaded, taken advantage of, or pushed around.
• 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.
• weenie noun (informal) A weak, feeble person.
• 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.
• yellow noun The bright color of lemons, sunflowers, and egg yolks, produced by light around 580 nanometers.

Senses

codardo is used for these senses in English:

• chicken (countable, slang, sometimes, derogatory) A coward.
• coward A person who lacks courage.
• cowardly Showing cowardice; lacking in courage; weakly fearful.
• milksop (by extension, pejorative) An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.
• namby-pamby Lacking vigor or decisiveness; spineless; wishy-washy.
• namby-pamby One who is insipid, sentimental, or weak.
• pansy (derogatory, colloquial) A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
• pushover Someone who is easy to push around and to take advantage of; someone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied without defending or standing up for themselves.

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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